ELIGIBILITY:

Music Scholarship: The call is open to Irish, UK, EU, and international students. Applicants must have an undergraduate degree at first-class honours level or at least 2.1 level in a relevant subject area. It is desirable that candidates hold a relevant Master’s qualification. Candidates who are currently completing a Master’s qualification are welcome to apply. 

The school is interested in receiving research proposals in the following areas:

Music in Digital Cultures (including AI)

Electroacoustic Music/Sound Studies

Music, Technology, and Higher Education

Music and Arts Infrastructure

Choral Studies 

Historical Musicology

Applied Musicology 

Contemporary Music 

Music Cognition

Jazz Musicology

In advance of the deadline, interested applicants should make informal contact with an academic staff member of the school whose research area covers their proposed doctoral work. Applicants should not contact more than one staff member simultaneously.

General questions can be directed to the School PhD Convenor, Dr Miriam De Cock (miriamjane.decock@dcu.ie)

Theology and Religious Studies Scholarship: The call is open to Irish, UK, EU, and international students. Applicants must have an undergraduate degree at first-class honours level or at least 2.1 level in a relevant subject area. It is desirable that candidates hold a relevant Master’s qualification. Candidates who are currently completing a Master’s qualification are welcome to apply. 

The school is interested in receiving research proposals on the following topics:

Systematic Theology

Political and Philosophical Theology

Intersection of Theology, Philosophy, Music, and Ethics

Textual History and Religious Aspects of Semitic languages

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament; Reception History of the Old Testament

New Testament and Early Christianity

Comparative Sacred Texts

Interreligious Dialogue

Theological Ethics

In advance of the deadline, interested applicants should make informal contact with an academic staff member of the school whose research area covers their proposed doctoral work. Applicants should not contact more than one staff member simultaneously.

General questions can be directed to the School PhD Convenor, Dr Miriam De Cock (miriamjane.decock@dcu.ie)

Philosophy and Ethics Scholarship: The call is open to Irish, UK, EU, and international students. Applicants must have an undergraduate degree at first-class honours level or at least 2.1 level in a relevant subject area. It is desirable that candidates hold a relevant Master’s qualification. Candidates who are currently completing a Master’s qualification are welcome to apply. 

The school is interested in receiving research proposals on the following topics:

Phenomenology

Early Modern Philosophy

Historiography of Western Philosophy

Philosophical Ethics

Environmental Ethics 

Bioethics

AI Ethics

In advance of the deadline, interested applicants should make informal contact with an academic staff member of the school whose research area covers their proposed doctoral work. Applicants should not contact more than one staff member simultaneously.

General questions can be directed to the School PhD Convenor, Dr Miriam De Cock (miriamjane.decock@dcu.ie)

BENEFIT:

Music Scholarship, Theology and Religious Studies Scholarship & Philosophy and Ethics Scholarship: Funding covers full-time fees for 4 years and an annual stipend of €25,000. Students will become part of a vibrant interdisciplinary academic community and will have opportunities in research training and mentoring toward publication and grant writing, as well as support for dissemination of research. The scholarship start date is September 2026.