Research vacancies

Classics at the University of Galway is pleased to invite applications for a four-year PhD scholarship, with an anticipated starting date from September 2025 on the project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’. The PhD student will participate in a new funded project directed by Dr Ciaran Arthur, investigating the role of linguistic obscurity in medieval texts and its impact on education, scholarship, and knowledge-transfer between Britain and Ireland at home and abroad.

Application deadline: Deadline: Friday 20 June 2025 5pm (Irish Standard Time).

See the Connect 4 PhD Advert for details.