Ireland UCD Sutherland School of Law Doctoral Scholarships
Scholarship Description: The Sutherland School of Law is pleased to offer up to three new doctoral scholarships in law for the academic year 2018-2019. The scholarships are open to Irish, other EU and international applicants.
Language Requirements: English Language Requirements for the PhD in Law Programme
- Applicants whose first language is not English must submit satisfactory evidence of competence in written and spoken English, i.e. overall IELTS 6.5 (including a minimum of 6.5 in the reading and writing parts and no part below 6.0) or 90 in the TOEFL iBT (with a minimum of 22 (reading) and 24 (writing) and no part below 20.) The test results must be less than 2 years old.
- International applicants should visit the UCD International Office website (www.ucd.ie/international) for information regarding our campus, location of UCD, visa information, registration and orientation.
Application Procedure: This letter should be no more than 2 sides of A4 single-spaced and can be sent either as an email attachment or in hard copy to Ms. Niamh McCabe, Graduate Programme Manager, Sutherland School of Law, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
- In addition to the cover letter you must submit the following documents:
- A research proposal which includes:
- A statement of the research question the candidate proposes to examine;
- An outline of the proposed methodology (in other words, an outline of how the applicant proposes to go about their research); and
- A brief literature review. (The idea of this is to place the research within the current state of knowledge in the field in question. It should include a short, indicative, bibliography of works in the field). There is no maximum length for a research proposal. Normally, it would be at least three or four pages long.
- Two academic references: Please note that it is your responsibility to contact your referees to ensure that references are received before the closing date/time for this scholarship.
- Applicants whose first language is not English must submit satisfactory evidence of competence in written and spoken English, i.e. overall IELTS 6.5 (including a minimum of 6.5 in the reading and writing parts and no part below 6.0) or 90 in the TOEFL iBT (with a minimum of 22 (reading) and 24 (writing) and no part below 20.) The test results must be less than 2 years old.
- All academic transcripts.
Please complete an on-line University Postgraduate application by the deadline. Please also send a covering letter explaining why you wish to undertake a PhD, and in particular, why you wish to undertake a PhD at UCD School of Law.