[Ireland] Scholarship for Postgraduate - National University if Ireland
Deadline: 15 May 2007
We invite applications from qualified candidates for a John and Pat Hume Research Scholarship, beginning in September 2007 and tenable for up to three years. The John and Pat Hume Research Scholarships at NUI Maynooth are open to full-time research students intending to pursue a PhD. The award comprises the payment of fees at EU level plus a maintenance sum of €5,000 per year for a maximum of three years.
In the case of the Scholarship in Classics or French, the successful candidate may also be invited to undertake teaching in the Department concerned; payment for such teaching will be made at the University’s fixed hourly rates for occasional staff, up to a maximum of €3,000 per year. One Scholarship only will be awarded in 2007, and it will be awarded in either Classics or French.
Applicants should normally have a distinguished academic record at the BA and MA levels, though outstanding candidates currently in the final year of their BA degree are also encouraged to apply. Applicants for the Scholarship in Classics are expected to have attained a high level of competence in Greek and/or Latin and to be able to demonstrate the capacity for high-quality research at PhD level. The Department can offer supervision in a wide range of areas. It has particular strengths in late Antiquity and the ancient novel, but other areas of special interest include Greek tragedy, Latin poetry, Greek and Roman social and cultural history, Roman Italy, and Hellenistic and Neoplatonic philosophy. Further information on the Department of Ancient Classics may be obtained from the University website at http://ancientclassics.nuim.ie/ Applications by post (and not by e-mail), which should consist of a curriculum vitae, a statement of between 300 and 500 words outlining the area in which the applicant envisages undertaking PhD work, and a covering letter, with the names and postal and e-mail addresses of two academic referees, should be sent to:
Contact:
Professor David Scourfield,
Department of Ancient Classics National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
Maynooth Co. Kildare,
Ireland,
to arrive by 15 May 2007.
Informal enquiries may be made by e-mail to
Professor Scourfield at david.scourfield@nuim.ie or to Dr Mark Humphries at mark.humphries@nuim.ie.
