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Funding: IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships - Pre-Call Notice
The Irish Research Council has announced that the calls for the 2023 Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programmes will open on 8 September 2022. These programmes support suitably qualified research master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral candidates pursuing, or intending to pursue, full-time research in any discipline at eligible higher education institutions in Ireland. Scholarships can be held for between one and four years and fellowships for either one or two years.
Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Funding: A.C. Elias, Jr. Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship
ASECS' A. C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship, with $2500 in annual funding, supports "documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800), by enabling North American-based scholars to travel to Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel to North America for furthering their research." Projects conducting original research on any aspect of 18C Ireland qualify for consideration, but recipients must be members of ASECS who have permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of its Irish sister organization, The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, residing on the island of Ireland. Prize winners are chosen by an independent jury of three scholars from different disciplines, after each is seen by readers in the applicant’s field.
Date: Monday, 22 August 2022
Susan Gottloeber appointed Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning
Dr Susan Gottloeber has been appointed Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy. She will take up her position in September this year.
Date: Monday, 15 August 2022
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
International Conference: Women at the Piano 1848–1970, University of California, Irvine, 17–19 March 2023, organized by Joe Davies and Natasha Loges.
Date: Monday, 15 August 2022
Dr. Catherine Gander selected to be part of the Irish Writers' Centre National Mentoring Programme
MU English's Dr. Catherine Gander has been selected as one of 38 creative writers across the island of Ireland to be part of the Irish Writers' Centre National Mentoring Programme.
Date: Friday, 12 August 2022
MU researchers find that Wikipedia influences judges’ legal reasoning
Researchers have found that a Wikipedia article can increase a case’s citations by more than 20%, thereby influencing judges’ legal reasoning.
Date: Thursday, 28 July 2022
Residential Fellowships 2023-2024: National Humanities Center, North Carolina, USA
The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships. Mid-career, senior, and emerging scholars from all areas of the humanities with a strong record of peer-reviewed work are encouraged to apply.
Date: Friday, 22 July 2022
Dr Estelle Murphy takes up BSECS Bodleian Fellowship
Dr Estelle Murphy has taken up a Bodleian Fellowship for the month of July, working at the Weston Library, Oxford.
Date: Friday, 15 July 2022
Wild Geese: Irish Migrants in Early Modern Europe Conference, Limerick 15-16 July 2022
This conference – Wild Geese: Irish Migrants in Early Modern Europe – brings a group of historians and speakers to Limerick to consider the latest research on the ‘Irish in Europe’, as well as to reflect upon the links between Ireland’s history of migration and the nature of migration in Ireland today.
Date: Thursday, 14 July 2022
New Book Published by Faculty
A History of Competitive Gaming (Routledge 2022) studies the full history of competitive gaming from the 1970s to the 2010s against the background of the arrival of the electronic and computer age. It investigates how competitive gaming has grown into a new form of entertainment, a sport-like competition, a lucrative business and a unique cultural sensation.
Date: Friday, 08 July 2022