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The deadline for applications for entry to TCC in September 2010 has been announced as 1 April 2010..

The deadline for applications for entry to TCC in September 2010 has been announced as 1 April 2010.

University College Cork will host the next TCC workshop, with Melvyn Bragg as guest speaker, on 25 March 2010. .

Following the success of the TCC workshop in NUI Galway, with guest speaker Professor Terry Eagleton, the next TCC workshop will be held in University College Cork, with Melvyn Bragg as guest speaker, on 25 March 2010.

The deadline for TCC applications for entry in Sep 2009 has been announced.

The deadline for TCC applications for entry in September 2009 has been announced: all applications must be submitted in full following the regulations of the student's institution of choice by 1 April 2009. Contact the TCC directors for full information.

Applicants to the Texts, Contexts, Cultures programme can apply for IRCHSS funding for their doctoral studies.

The IRCHSS website [http://www.irchss.ie/schemes/scheme01/index.html] has announced this year's call for applications for postgraduate funding. Applicants with EU student status to the Texts, Contexts, Cultures programme can apply for 3 years of funding - full fees plus €16,000 pa.

Education Minister to launch innovative PhD programme, Dublin, 20 November 2008.

On Thursday 20 November 2008, the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe T.D., will launch Europe’s leading Arts and Humanities PhD programme in a ceremony in Trinity College Dublin.

The new PhD programme, Texts, Contexts, Cultures, is delivered in co-operation between research hubs at three of Ireland’s leading universities: the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, NUI Galway; the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin; and the Graduate School of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork. Texts, Contexts, Cultures will provide students with a PhD in their chosen discipline of the Arts and Humanities in four years of research and training. The programme is designed to integrate knowledge and use of new technologies and related professional placements into the traditional PhD. To that end, Texts, Contexts, Cultures has been funded by the Higher Education Authority's Strategic Innovation Fund as part of the government's commitment to develop graduate education, and has been significantly augmented by funds from the all-Ireland collaboration Humanities Serving Irish Society, which has in turn been enabled by the HEA's research funding programme, PRTLI 4.

Texts, Contexts, Cultures has now recruited its full cohort of students after an international competition, with an intake of 30 students from Ireland, Europe and the Americas. These students are developing their research through the vehicle of a structured four year research degree. The students are engaging with the research knowledge and skills of scholars from the three universities. They are being encouraged to develop their research interests, ideas and skills in challenging, supportive interdisciplinary contexts. Students’ research interests will develop through a series of foundation year modules which are being delivered by online learning media and video conferencing.

Texts, Contexts, Cultures is designed to prepare students for life after graduation. Participants will benefit from a career training scheme that provides thorough preparation in research skills transferable to a wide variety of settings. They will also have access to placements and mentoring systems in a broad range of some of the most exciting contemporary organisations in media, the cultural and creative industries, public administration and academe.

Texts, Contexts, Cultures was brought to life through the vision of Professor Nicholas Canny at the Moore Institute, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith Chair of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, and Professor David Cox, Head of the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies at University College Cork. Their successful bid for inter-institutional funding led to the recruitment of three scholars to leadership roles in the program, Professor Nicholas Allen at National University of Ireland, Galway, Dr Crawford Gribben at Trinity College Dublin, and Professor Brendan Dooley at University College Cork.

The new programme has been welcomed by Professor Nicholas Canny, Vice President for Research at NUI Galway: “This challenging, innovative and exciting inter-institutional graduate training programme in the Arts and Humanities is setting an example in resource sharing which the sciences must follow.”

Professor John Hegarty, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, added: “The integrated PhD in Texts, Contexts, Cultures shows that Trinity College Dublin, with its partner institutions University College Cork and NUI Galway, is setting the pace in interdisciplinary research in the Arts and Humanities. Texts, Contexts, Cultures represents an exciting new beginning for higher education in Ireland - and for higher education itself.”

Professor Joe Lee, Director of Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, was similarly enthusiastic: “The creation of the Integrated PhD in Texts, Contexts, Cultures is a long overdue initiative in Irish Higher Education. Placing Ireland among the leaders of research development in the Arts and Humanities, it offers exciting new opportunities for staff and students alike.”