Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:57 AM
Subject: Postgraduate Study at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
March 2012
Dear Colleagues,
I write to introduce the postgraduate programmes offered by the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin. I should be grateful if you would bring the attached information / literature to the attention of any students who may be interested in postgraduate opportunities in Ireland for 2012-2013 or, indeed, in the future.
All of our programmes focus on aspects of conflict, dialogue, peace and reconciliation. In addition to our research (M.Litt. and Ph.D.) degrees, we have three specialized Masters programmes:
M.Phil. in International Peace Studies – please contact: Mary Priestman, (peacesec@tcd.ie)
M.Phil. in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies – please contact: Christine Houlahan, (ecumsec@tcd.ie)
M.Phil. in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation – please contact: Caroline Clarke, (reconsec@tcd.ie).
In addition we offer a Semester in Northern Ireland programme for Visiting Undergraduates: www.tcd.ie/ise/semesterabroad/ - please contact: Caroline Clarke, (reconsec@tcd.ie)
The Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD is the only cross-border university department, so students can study in either Dublin or Belfast, or can have an experience of both contexts, depending on their particular academic interests. In any one year, we have approximately 100 students following our taught Masters programmes, together with approximately 45 research students studying for the degrees of Ph.D and M.Litt. ISE is also playing a central role in Trinity’s new South Asian Initiative and is honoured to provide the academic home within Trinity for the Rotational Chair in Indic Studies. Professor Felix Wilfred of the University of Madras was the first incumbent. Provision for a second Chair-holder is currently being arranged.
Our programmes aim to combine the highest academic standards with ethical engagement on the critical issues of the day, and are of interest to those recognizing the need to develop new or additional skill sets, thereby attaining competencies, increasingly sought after in research, policy and practice spheres.
In addition to students from Ireland and the EU, we have a strong contingent of students from the USA, Canada and the developing nations, many of whom have been awarded prestigious scholarships. Profiles of our alumni and alumnae indicate that they play an increasingly important role as policy-makers, educationalists, mediators and reconcilers. They work with various organisations including the United Nations, European Union, and the World Council of Churches, and are present in many countries including Australia, Brazil, Burundi, Cameroon, China, Georgia, India, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, St Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Turkey, USA, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Others proceed to further research in pursuance of a career in higher academic studies; others, within socially rooted education initiatives; still others in leading roles in a range of sectors in international civic society.
Apart from the attraction of Irish cultural life and the opportunity of studying in one of the world’s leading universities, these students are drawn by the international profile of staff research. Current research projects include: globalization and ethics; religion and civil society; comparative theology and interreligious dialogue; the ethics of non-violence; the work of truth and reconciliation commissions; religion and American foreign policy; the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation; and modern religious fundamentalism.
Having welcomed over the years many international students to the School, we should greatly appreciate your help in encouraging students from your University / College to explore some of the unique options of study among a truly cosmopolitan interdisciplinary cohort of scholars at ISE, Trinity College Dublin.
Thank you for giving this information your consideration. If there are appropriate persons (or venues) to whom further literature should be sent, I should be most grateful for your advice and guidance.
For information regarding all relevant closing dates or to apply on-line please refer to the following websites:
www.tcd.ie/ise
www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies
http://www.tcd.ie/ise/study/apply/
Applications will be considered after the closing dates only if places remain available.
With good wishes, I am,
Yours sincerely
Dr Geraldine Smyth
Associate Professor and
Head of Irish School of Ecumenics,
Trinity College Dublin,
at Bea House,
Milltown Park,
Dublin 6, Ireland
