Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Not on Offer 2013
Post-Doctoral Fellowships are funded by a special NUI Fund. The main purpose of these Fellowships is to encourage and support graduates of proven academic excellence to advance their scholarly research. It is expected that the research undertaken will result in a substantial contribution to knowledge, worthy of publication, and contribute to the learning culture in the constituent institutions.
NUI / Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities 2012
The University was pleased to introduce the Dr Garret FitzGerald Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities in 2012. These new Fellowships were to honour the memory of the late Chancellor of the National University of Ireland who died in 2011.
Three Fellowships were awarded as follows:
Fellow |
Proposed Venue |
Research Title |
Dr Mark Empey (a graduate of UCD) |
Department of History, NUI Maynooth |
Politics, Culture and Society in seventeenth-century Ireland: A Study of Sir James Ware, 1594 – 1666 |
Dr Meriel McClatchie (a graduate of UCC) |
School of Archaeology, UCD |
The Early Medieval Agricultural Revolution: Archaebotanical evidence for transformations in crop productions in Ireland within its Northwest European context, AD 500-1100 |
Dr Máirín Mac Carron (a graduate of UCC) |
Department of History, NUI Galway |
Bede and the measurement of Time |
NUI Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Sciences 2012
Not on Offer 2013
Two Fellowships were awarded in the Sciences as follows:
Fellow |
Proposed Venue |
Research Title |
Dr John Healy (a graduate of UCD) |
Department of Electronic Engineering, NUI Maynooth |
Fast and accurate calculation of Cohen-class distributions and applications |
Dr Bettina Schaible (a graduate of UCD) |
Conway Institute, UCD |
The role of hypoxia in the regulation of host-pathogen interactions in cystic fibrosis |
Comhaltacht Iar-Dhochtura i Léann na Gaeilge/an Léann Ceilteach Curtha ar Ceal
Not on Offer 2013
Is í aidhm don Chomhaltacht spreagadh agus tacaíocht a thabhairt do 2009 scoláire iar-dhochtúra den chéad scoth a c(h)uid taighde a chur ar aghaidh i gComh-Ollscoil de chuid Ollscoil na hÉireann. Is i Léann na Gaeilge/An Léann Ceilteach a bheas an taighde. Beifear ag súil i ngach cás go mbeidh sé mar thoradh ar an taighde a thabharfar faoi go gcuirfear go mór leis an eolas atá ar fáil cheana i dtaobh an ábhair agus gur fiú é a fhoilsiú.
Íocfar an Comhaltacht ina ghálaí i rith tréimhse dhá bhliain.