PG Funding Opportunities
Postgraduate
- PG Admissions
- Taught MA programmes
- MA modules
- Extended MA
- Jean Hogan MA Memorial Scholarship and MA Memorial Essay Prize
- MA in Philosophy (General Programme)
- MA in Contemporary European Philosophy
- MA in Ethics: Theory and Practice
- MA in Consciousness and Embodiment
- MA in Philosophy and Literature
- MA in Philosophy and Public Affairs
- MSc in Cognitive Science
- Research PhD
- The challenge of the PhD
- PG Funding Opportunities
Funding opportunities for MA and PhD
Application deadline: Non EU Students: Friday 2nd June 2023 and EU Students: Friday 30th June 2023
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MA Funding Opportunities
1. Jean Hogan MA Memorial Scholarship
The School of Philosophy has introduced an annual scholarship in memory of one of our MA students who passed away recently. Jean Hogan was an outstanding student who overcame very difficult personal circumstances to do the MA. The scholarship is open to anyone applying to an MA in Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Philosophy and Literature, Consciousness and Embodiment, Contemporary European Philosophy, Ethics: Theory and Practice. The scholarship is a fee waiver up the value of EU fees of €7990. MA applicants who wish to be considered for this award will be asked to specify this in their personal statements submitted with their MA application. The successful applicant will have an outstanding academic track record to date. The selection criterion for the scholarship will be quality of this track record, determined by the information provided in the candidate’s application for the MA. Applications from candidates who have overcome difficult circumstances to pursue their studies are particularly welcomed.
Past Award Recipients
- 2022: Conall Clarke
2. MA Entrance Awards
Up to two competitive entrance awards of €1000 may be offered to students who have been admitted to the UCD Philosophy MA Programme. In the academic year 2023-2024 priority will be given to MA Programme applicants in Contemporary European Philosophy, Ethics: Theory and Practice and Philosophy and Literature. Applicants to those programmes will be automatically considered for an MA Entrance Award.
3. MA Newman Scholarship
One Scholarship is available for students applying to the MA in Philosophy (General Programme), with the commitment to write their MA dissertation on an aspect of the work or legacy of John Henry Newman.
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a leading intellectual, religious thinker, philosopher and literary figure whose works include The Idea of a University (1852), An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870), and Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). Newman was the founder of the Catholic University of Ireland, that led to the establishment of University College Dublin.
The scholarship will provide a significant contribution to the cost of tuition fees of €7990 (minimum 50% and up to a possible 100%). Scholarships are open to Irish, EU and International applicants. The scholarships are endowed by the Newman Foundation.
Once they have applied for an MA in Philosophy (General Programme), applicants are requested to email a brief description of their interest in Newman's work and of their proposed dissertation project to philosophy@ucd.ie.
Past Scholarship Recipients
- 2014: Nora Sullivan and Ulysses Ryan Flynn
- 2015: Ross Ferrara and Christopher DuPee
- 2017: Dhanya Raghavan and John Rogers
- 2018: Paraskevi (Evi) Filea
- 2019: Andrew Doyle, Cormac Duffy, Shane Hutchinson
- 2020: Duane Michael Browne
PhD Funding Opportunities
Deadline for PhD scholarship applications:
- Friday 2 June 2023 Non-EU Applicants
- Friday 30 June 2023 for EU Applicants
Applicants will be informed of the decision by Friday 14th July 2023
The School offers up to four PhD scholarships consisting of:
- Fee remission of up to €6790 euro per annum for four years subject to satisfactory progress each year
- An entrance award of to €2000 for the academic year of entry only
- Opportunities for teaching and research assistantship remunerated at the University’s hourly tutorial rate.
When applying for the PhD programme, applicants should state on their application that they wish to be considered for the Scholarships.
Past Award Recipients
| Year | Awardee | Thesis Title |
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| 2012 | Martin Grünfeld | 'Towards a Poetics of Knowledge: The Dominance of Scientific Writing and the Demolition of Thinking' |
| 2013 | Asgeir Johannesson | 'Rooted in Kant and Blessed by Wittgenstein: Philosophical Justifications for the Methods of the Austrian School of Economics' |
| 2014 | Giulio Di Basilio | 'The Notion of Prohairesis in Aristotle's Philosophy of Action' |
| David Markwell | 'Merleau-Ponty's Ethics' | |
| 2015 | Muhannad Hariri | 'Inferential Intuitions: The Role of the Imagination in Sellars' Theory of Experience' |
| 2016 | Rana Bizri | 'Understanding our Fundamental Ways of engaging with the World: Beyond Discursive Action' |
| Damien Lennon | 'Eliot, Joyce and the Hermeneutic of Ruin' | |
| Frida Trotter | 'The connection between theory and nature. Wilfrid Sellars' analysis on language and perception' |
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| 2017 | Antoine Athanassiadis | 'Social Critique in Adorno and Foucault' |
| Liam Beggan | 'Noam Chomsky’s early use of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Philosophy of Language' |
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| Holly Hartman | 'Nothing About You is Alone' |
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| 2018 | Sabrina Keenan | 'The Experience of Aging' |
| Jonathan Wren | 'The Sharing of Being-with: The Political Hermeneutics of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy' |
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| 2019 | Natalia Burakowska | 'The Phenomenology of Dementia: An Embodied-Cognitive Account' |
| August Buholzer | 'Kantian Naturalism in Alois Riehl and Wilfrid Sellars' | |
| Clémance Santemarie | ‘The Aesthetic is Political’: A Critical Phenomenology of Social In/Visibility: Perception, Representation, the Imaginary' | |
| 2020 | Andrew Doyle | 'On the Being of Philosophical Lecture' |
| 2021 | Samuel Ferns | 'Freedom, Knowledge and Power: Reflexive Stage in the Grammars of Critical Social Theory' |
| Miho Kaneko | 'Can a Kind Essentialist Account of Instantiation Explain the Authorial Creation of Fictional Characters?' | |
| Denise Kelly | 'On Being (an Outsider): A Phenomenological Exploration of Social Phobia and Agoraphobia' | |
| Aisling Phipps | 'Parallels Between Personal Identity and Morality: The Effects of Identity Disturbance on Developing the Moral System in an Individual with Borderline Personality Disorder' | |
| 2022 | David Haack | 'Phenomenology of Temperature' |
Funding Opportunities outside the UCD School of Philosophy
MA and PhD applicants are also encouraged to explore opportunities with outside funding agencies. The information below relates to some of the more widely available sources, but is by no means exhaustive.
- Student Universal Support Ireland -- (SUSI) grants for fees for Irish resident students (means-tested).
- See UCD Global scholarships for:
- international students
- past UCD students who studied abroad in non-EU countries
- students who graduated from member universities of Universitas 21
- students from certain countries.
- For PhD students only: the Irish Research Council's (IRC) Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme. Applications open in September and close at the end of October.