LINGUIST List 10.897

Sun Jun 13 1999

Support: Teaching and PhD studentships

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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  • Larry Trask, Teaching bursary at Sussex
  • Dr James M Scobbie, Four funded PhD studentships: deadlines extended

    Message 1: Teaching bursary at Sussex

     Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:07:35 +0100 (BST)
    From: Larry Trask <larrytcogs.susx.ac.uk>
    Subject: Teaching bursary at Sussex


    HISTORIC(AL) OPPORTUNITY AT SUSSEX! TEACHING BURSARY IN LINGUISTICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

    The Linguistics group at the University of Sussex, located in Brighton, England, is offering a teaching bursary for a postgraduate research student, beginning October 1999 (negotiable within limits). The successful applicant will register for the degree of DPhil (= PhD; three years' award) or MPhil (two years' award). The preferred areas of research for this award are historical linguistics and the sociolinguistic study of language change, two of the research strengths of the Sussex group, but the award may be held for work in any area that the group is able to supervise. The group's names appear below, together with their specialisms. The value of the award (at 1999 prices) is 9710 pounds per year, including tuition fees at the rate for HEC students (2610 pounds). The award may be held part-time, with support pro rata, but full-time applicants will be preferred.

    The successful applicant will be expected to teach (or do other related work) in general linguistics for up to six hours a week during term time (maximum 25 weeks in the year) as part of the conditions of the award. Appropriate training will be given. S/he will also participate in research seminars organized by the group. S/he will receive the standard working facilities of other postgraduate students in the highly-regarded School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, where the studentship will be located.

    Further details from the Subject Chair, Larry Trask (larrytcogs.susx.ac.uk) or the Dean of the School, Richard Coates (richardccogs.susx.ac.uk). Applications by 25 June 1999 to Professor Trask. He will inform the relevant authorities, from whom an application form will be sent. It would help us to come to a quick decision if you would duplicate your formal application by sending Professor Trask a CV with a statement of your area of research interest, and naming three academic referees (exceptionally two), one of whom should be your principal tutor during your previous degree programme. E-mail submissions of this material are encouraged.

    LINGUISTICS STAFF NICOLA WOODS DPhil (Oxford)

    Sociolinguistics, social motivation of language variation and change, discourse analysis, prosody; extraterritorial English; language and gender MAX WHEELER DPhil (Oxford) Morphology, sociolinguistics (especially of language change), historical linguistics, psycholinguistics; Catalan LARRY TRASK PhD (SOAS, London) Syntax and morphology; historical linguistics; linguistic lexicography; Basque MELANIE GREEN PhD (SOAS, London)

    Syntax (especially comparative syntax and syntactic typology); Hausa and other Chadic languages; aphasiology RICHARD COATES PhD (Cambridge) Historical linguistics, onomastics, sociology of language, morphology, phonology; place-names of England; Channel Islands French, the medieval languages of the British Isles Joint supervision with other groups, including Computational Linguistics (in Artificial Intelligence) and Psychology is possible.

    Message 2: Four funded PhD studentships: deadlines extended

     Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:25:15 +0100
    From: Dr James M Scobbie <j.scobbiesls.qmced.ac.uk>
    Subject: Four funded PhD studentships: deadlines extended


    There is an extended deadline for funded PhD studentships at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. (originally posted on LINGUIST 10-764).

    Please post on dept noticeboards and pass on this information to students and ex-students (e.g. Speech and Language Therapists) who might be interested.

    The 3-year PhD studentships (minimum 6,455 pounds per year ) are in the areas of:

    * child speech development * stuttering * acquired cognitive/linguistic deficits * speech production*

    A pdf file is available on the web at http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/research/research_studentships.pdf containing contact phone numbers for each studentship. Note the pdf description gives the deadline as "28 May 1999" but this has been extended till the end of July 1999 at the latest, although there may in fact be interviews before that date, especially for the acquired cognitive/linguistic deficits area. Please check with the contact person for each grant for details and up-to-date information. Application forms are available on-line.

    Further particulars and application forms can be obtained from Human Resources, Queen Margaret University College, Clerwood Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 8TS (0131 317 3291 \150 24 hours) to whom the completed application forms should be returned by 28 May 1999. Application forms and information about the dept's research are also available on the Dept web pages at http://sls.qmced.ac.uk/News/99_2.htm

    **The "speech production" studentship is funded by the EPSRC who cover fees and maintainance for UK applicants but fees only for EU applicants. This one is not open to applicants from outwith the EU.