RESEARCH DEGREES - Art History and Cultural Policy & Arts Management
Research postgraduate studies are offered in all aspects of Art History: painting, sculpture, architecture, and the applied arts in Ireland from 1600. They are also offered in those aspects of the Art History and in Cultural Policy and Arts Management that correspond to the research interests of the staff. Students with a particular proposal for research theses should bring the proposal to the potential supervisor in the first instance.
Pat Cooke, MA, MBA – lecturer;
Research Interests: Cultural policy and management within the cultural sector.
Philip Cottrell, MA, PhD (St Andrew’s) – lecturer;
Research Interests: 16th century Venetian painting. His current research includes reflections of poverty and villa culture in Venetian painting.
Nicola Figgis, MA, PhD (NUI) – lecturer;
Research Interests: Irish art of 18th century; the Irish on the Grand Tour.
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, MA, PhD (UPenn) - Professor;
Research Interests: architectural history around the world since 1800; the relationship between modernism,
modernity, and nationalism.
John Loughman, MA, PhD (Lond) – lecturer;
Research Interests: History & Visual Culture of the Low Countries in the 17th and 18th centuries; printmaking.
Emily Mark FitzGerald, MA (Indiana University), PhD (NUI) – lecturer;
Research Interests: modern and contemporary international and Irish art; public art and monuments; memory, identity and representation; museums, exhibition practice and arts/cultural policy.
Lynda Mulvin, MArchSc (Cons) (KU Louvain), PhD(Dub) – lecturer;
Research Interests: Greek and Roman art and architecture; Medieval Art and Architecture; 19th-century art and architecture; conservation of archaeological sites and historic buildings.
Paula Murphy, MA, PhD (NUI) – senior lecturer;
Research Interests: Modernist sculpture, painting and art theory; sculpture and painting in Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Provides awards for postgraduate research in the historical, analytical and theoretical study of Humanities and Social Sciences, including Law and Business Studies.
www.artscouncil.ie
The Arts Council expresses its support to the artist in a variety of ways, through grant-aid to organisations, events and production companies, and more explicitly through awards and schemes where the primary relationship is between the artist and the Council.
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The Department provides a number of scholarships to students wishing to study in Ireland.
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PhD Scholarships, with preference being given to Business Studies, Law, Marketing, Media Studies, Technology and the Arts.
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The Academy awards approximately sixty research grants each year in both the humanities and the natural science.
