The Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Memorial Award

The Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Memorial Award is a PhD scholarship offered by the School of Film, Music & Theatre at University College Cork. The Award, first offered in 2022, has been made available by Douglas Murray and the WHH Foundation in memoriam Dr. Danijela Kulezic-Wilson, who was a member of staff in the Music Department until her passing in 2021. The scholarship has a value of US$44,250 over three years and is intended for students beginning their PhDs in September 2025 or January 2026. The award will be made to the applicant who proposes a PhD in any of the disciplines available in the School of Film, Music & Theatre that is notably innovative and, in line with Dr. Kulezic-Wilson's research, addresses topics and/or employs methodologies that exhibit interdisciplinarity. The award is available for PhDs employing either scholarly or practice-based approaches, or in any combination permitted by the School's current doctoral programmes; those in which practice is an integral part are especially welcomed. The Award is intended to facilitate the creation of a community of PhDs with different disciplinary approaches but overlapping interests within the School. It is desirable that successful awardees will contribute substantially to the academic, artistic, and cultural life of UCC and Ireland. Awardees will be required to contribute to the management of an annual postgraduate symposium intended to showcase the work of the awardees and others. The Award is particularly intended to support applicants who are unable to obtain funding from elsewhere or fund the costs of a PhD directly.