Advancing Humanities and Social Sciences Research in Ireland

Table 11
HERD expenditure on humanities and social sciences as a percentage of HERD in
all fields of science, 2000–2004 (constant 1995 prices)
Table 12
Ireland’s participation in EU FP4, FP5 and FP6
Table 13
Participation by Irish HSS researchers in NORFACE activities, 2005–2006
Table 14
Summary of participation of Ireland, Finland and Portugal in ESF instruments in the
HSS, 2001–2005
Table 15
PhD enrolments—distribution between HSS and SET, with year on year percentage
growth, 2000–2005
Table 16
IRCSET amd IRCHSS postgraduate scholarship scheme: number of applications for
scholarships and awards granted, 1998–2006
Table 17
Number of HSS PhD awards compared to HSS postdoctoral fellowship posts in the
higher-education sector, 1998–2004
40
55
57
58
64
65
68
Chart 1
Percentage share of total HERD by field of science, 2002 and 2004
Chart 2
HSS HERD sources of funding, 1998–2004
Chart 3
HSS HERD direct-government funding by agency, 1998–2005
Chart 4
Capital and recurrent allocations from direct-government sources of HSS HERD,
1998 – 2005
Chart 5
Number of HSS researchers compared with total number of researchers in all fields
of science in the higher-education sector, 1998–2004
26
28
31
31
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