Ph.D. in Archaeology

The Department of Archaeology offers supervision in a wide range of topics within prehistory, medieval and historical archaeology as well as public archaeology. For details of staff research fields please see the departmental research web pages.

Each student will be assigned a primary supervisor. In addition the Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers will assist you in planning your programme of study and provides on-going support to your research. Each year the department produces a Handbook with relevant information for Graduate Research Students.

Desk space is provided for all research students in the archaeology research rooms, resulting in daily and informal interaction with the staff. The department organises regular postgraduate seminars and guest lectures.

The Department of Archaeology offers both a traditional PhD and a structured PhD.

The Structured PhD in Archaeology is a four-year, full-time programme of study and research. The credit rating of the Structured PhD is 360 ECTS spread over 4 years. Of these 40 ECTS will be allocated to taught modules.

Applicants must have a high honours standard in their primary degree or present such other evidence of fitness which will satisfy the Head of discipline and the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies.

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules (40 ECTS), allowing for each student’s course to be tailored to the research needs of her/his dissertation topic. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

• are Discipline-Specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area, e.g., Introduction to Adobe Photoshop; Introduction to Digital Surveying and Archaeological Specialisms.
• are Dissertation-Specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to completion of the research project.
• acknowledge a student’s professional development, e.g., presentation of a paper at an International Conference and core surveying skills.
• enhance a student’s employability through generic training.

For more information please see:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses/research-postgraduate-programmes/structured-phd/archaeology.html

http://www.nuigalway.ie/arts/structured.html

Current Ph.D. research in Archaeology at N.U.I. Galway

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