Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity at the Irish Centre for Human Rights on Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding

The Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway, is pleased to offer one doctoral scholarship in the field of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding. (More information about the research area can be found below). The selected candidate will be supervised by Dr. Anita Ferrara and supported by a Graduate Research Committee, comprising staff members from the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

Funding

The scholarship is tenable for a maximum of four years, renewable each year, subject to satisfactory progress and recommendation by the Graduate Research Committee. It will cover full fees for the successful candidate, in addition to a stipend of €19,000 per annum.

Condition of Funding

The successful candidate must be in a position to join the PhD Programme before the end of February 2024.

The successful candidate must register on a full-time basis.

The Research Project

As part of the scholarship award, recipients are required to seek external scholarship funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC) or other funding bodies, as instructed by their PhD supervisor. In the event that an external scholarship is granted, the scholarship funding under this award will be terminated starting from the date of the external award’s commencement.

The scholarship aims to fund a research project that examines the scope and challenges of post-conflict justice processes. Candidates are free to define the project’s scope and to use one or more case studies, subject to the agreement of their supervisor.

A successful project should employ a multidisciplinary approach to law and legal studies, including Critical Legal Scholarship and/or Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). Projects that involve fieldwork research will be given preference.

For a clearer idea of the proposal’s potential, please check the type of research conducted by the members of the Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding Cluster.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit the following:

1. Curriculum vitae (maximum three pages)
2. An academic writing sample (e.g., published article, policy report, NGO report, or graduate writing sample)

In addition to the above, you must submit the following documents:

1. PhD proposal (setting out the project’s aims, objectives, research questions, and a research schedule) (max three pages).
2. An outline of the proposed research methodology (how the applicant intends to carry out the proposed research), max two pages.
3. Two academic references: Please note that the applicant must contact his/her referees to ensure that references are received before the closing date/time for this scholarship.
4. All academic transcripts.
5. Applicants whose first language is not English must submit satisfactory evidence of competence in written and spoken English, i.e., overall IELTS 6.5 (including a minimum of 6.5 in the reading and writing parts and no part below 6.0) or 90 in the TOEFL iBT (with a minimum of 22 (reading) and 24 (writing) and no part below 20.)
6. Fluency in another Language (both oral and written) is highly desirable.

Deadline

The required documentation, including letters of reference, should be emailed to humanrights@universityofgalway.ie.

The deadline for submission is Thursday, 14 December 2023, at 4pm.

Candidates may be invited to interview.