Bursaries for Masters/Graduate Diploma students 2012-13

Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 IST

 UCD School of Social Justice is offering bursaries to five students entering the M.Sc./Graduate Diploma in Equality Studies or the MA/Graduate Diploma in Women, Gender and Society. A donation from two benefactors has enabled the School to offer these financial supports in 2012-13.

 Social Justice Bursaries will be awarded to students who are experiencing financial or other disadvantage. Students who are eligible to apply for these bursaries include: those who have qualified for a State grant towards their fees; those who are in receipt of a medical card; those who are dependent on social welfare (including, but not confined to, Jobseeker Payment, One Parent Family Payment, Carer’s Allowance, Disability Allowance); those from groups underrepresented in third-level education (including people with disabilities, Travellers and certain ethnic minorities, low-income socio-economic groups, those who live in or come from disadvantaged areas, and/or those who have attended DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) schools). People who can demonstrate that they have an active commitment to social justice will be given credit for this in the application process.

The five €1,000 awards are open to either part-time or full-time students commencing study in September 2012. Students must have been accepted on one of the programmes before they can apply for a bursary. Only first-time-entrants to the Equality Studies M.Sc./Graduate Diploma and MA/Graduate Diploma in Women, Gender and Society in 2012 are eligible to apply.

If you are interested in being considered for the award, please send in a short (no more than 2 A4 pages) statement of eligibility to Professor Kathleen Lynch, School of Social Justice, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 by post; or by email to socialjustice@ucd.ie.  Please attach your Masters/Graduate Diploma application with the statement.  Please note that we may require evidence of eligibility on financial or disadvantage grounds should you be offered one of the awards. The final date for applying for the bursaries is Friday July 20^th 2012.

 For full details on the Equality Studies and Women’s Studies programmes see below and also visit  www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/graduateprogrammes/

Equality Studies is the only programme of its kind in Europe, addressing a wide range of equality, human rights, global justice and feminist issues 
Our taught MSc and Graduate Diploma Programmesprovide a critical analysis of all forms of inequality. 
Our modulesinclude Human Rights Law, Economics of Inequality, Racism and Anti-Racism; Disability and Equality; The Role of the Media and Equality; Gender Justice and many more.
Our programmes are flexible. They may be taken on a full or part-time basis, with classes offered in the late afternoon/evening. Equality studies students can be found working in the private, public and community and voluntary sectors. 
We welcome applicants from a wide a range of backgrounds, experience, interest and ambitions. Mature and ‘returning’ students, international students, and both men and women, are encouraged to apply.

 For more details visit http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/graduateprogrammes/
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 MSc Equality Studies      
 Graduate Diploma Equality Studies

   Women’s Studies at University College Dublin

Graduate Diploma in Women, Gender and Society
MA in Women, Gender and Society
In the current global and national economic crisis, a feminist perspective offers a complex understanding of how oppression works locally and globally and offers rich insights into the way multiple discrimination works across gender, race, class, sexual orientation, disability and age.

 The wide range of course modules cover feminist theory and politics, research methods, global perspectives on women, inequality and public policy, sexualities, women’s history and literature, psychology, education, law and human rights.

 Our programmes are flexible. Students may enroll on either a full-time or part-time basis.

 We welcome applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, experience and interests. Mature and ‘returning students’ and international students are encouraged to apply for study in the largest university in Ireland.

MA Women, Gender and Society   
Graduate Diploma Women, Gender and Society

For more details visit http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/graduateprogrammes/
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