There are currently about 150 students, the majority of them full-time, registered for research degrees in the Faculty of Arts. This represents some 15% of the University’s research student population. Of the Faculty’s academic staff over 80% are registered as research-active. Teaching and supervision in the Faculty is deeply informed by staff research activity, with leading researchers involved in delivering courses linked to their specialisms and in supervising PhD-level student research work.
The Research Graduate School has an administrative responsibility for all aspects of research student education and training from initial application to final examination. Details of the School’s role, structure, terms of reference, and the processes it oversees are provided in the Faculty’s handbook for postgraduate research.
Dr Stanley Black - Head of the Research Graduate School
- Post Graduate Course Topics & Information:
- PhD Topics
- MRes in Arts
- MRes Handbook
- Applying:
- Download Application Form
- Research Grants:
- The Research Graduate School will be offering a limited number of additional research grants found in the document below which is available as:
- download PDF
- download Word
- Forms:
- Postgraduate Admission Interview Form
- Request for RTC's
- Record of Meetings
- Resource Assessment
- Prior Approval
- Travel Expenses
- Appendix: RS 1-15 Forms
- All research students in the Faculty are affiliated to Faculty structures in four ways:
- to a subject-based School;
- to a Research Institute (RI);
- to a subject-based Unit of Assessment (UoA); and
- to the Faculty’s Research Graduate School (RGS).
The RGS has an administrative responsibility for all aspects of research student education and training from initial application to final examination.
In conjunction with the subject-based Schools and the Research Institutes, the RGS undertakes to provide its research students with facilities for study. The Faculty has dedicated Postgraduate Research Rooms on three campuses – Coleraine, Jordanstown, and Magee – where full-time students have access to desk space, a networked computer and a printer.
All students are required to obtain an e-mail address from Computer Services on their campus. This will be the address used by the Research Graduate School for all correspondence in relation to their research studies. It is the student’s responsibility to access information provided by the RGS. Any student preferring to use a different e-mail address should either set up his or her private e-mail programme to read mail delivered to the University address, or visit the University e-mail account regularly.
Students are reminded that their first port of call for all matters of concern should be their supervisor, or Dr Stanley Black Head of the Research Graduate School. Students are strongly discouraged from approaching the Research Office directly. For all other queries contact Mrs Janetta Chambers Research Graduate School Secretary.