Welcome to the IDPhD

Welcome to Memorial University's Interdisciplinary PhD Program (IDPhD), housed within the School of Graduate Studies. IDPhD students pursue studies across various departments and faculties. Our program presently has 46 doctoral students, several of whom are Tri-Council grant holders.

The IDPhD offers an intimate and varied community, in which students bring strong individual initiative to studies that cross traditional disciplinary borders, together with the shared research concerns and expertise of a diverse supervisory committee.

Students graduating from this program occupy a variety of positions, such as in academia, the not-for-profit sector, and business.

Applicants are encouraged to take an active part not only in shaping their interdisciplinary research projects, but also in putting together their committees of supervisors from across any of the University's faculties and schools.

The IDPhD Society

Every semester, the IDPhD Society organizes seminars with speakers with an active research profile, across any interdisciplinary field. For more information on our events, please click here.

IDPhD Administrative Committee

We are grateful to the members of the IDPhD Administrative Committee for their precious input in the study of the application files, and other administrative matters relating to the IDPhD program. The current members of the Committee are as follows:

• Dr. Amy Warren - Provost and Vice-President (Academic) pro tempore
  
• Dr. Emmanuel Haven - Director, IDPhD Program
• Dr. Jacqueline Blundell - Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies), Faculty of Science
  
• Dr. Ray Gosine, Associate Vice-President (Research)

As Director, I look forward to this next term in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program at Memorial University. If you have any questions about our program and/or the IDPhD Society, please feel free to contact me at ehaven@mun.ca.

Kind wishes,

Dr. E. Haven