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01/01/1970 - 00:00 Europe/Prague This is to announce PhD studentships in all areas of linguistics supervised at King's College London -- including those involving digital humanities, through ollaboration between the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication (LDC) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH). Please note that CCH has strong collaborative arrangements for doctoral supervision with all departments of Arts & Humanities at King's. Hence applications for linguistics-related work in any of the subject areas of these departments are welcome. More about LDC and CCH is given at the end of this message. Deadline for application: 1 February 2011. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/gradsch.aspx. Applicants should have very good qualifications and a clear research idea. (Potential applicants outside the U.K. should note that the PhD in this country is a research-only degree, though doctoral training courses are offered.) To apply follow these steps: 1) Identify a potential supervisor, referring to our webpages at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc. 2) Email the person you have identified, providing information about your background, qualifications and a draft research proposal (if you are unsure of who to contact, please send the material to mailto:toldc@kcl.ac.uk 3) If your potential supervisor encourages you, choose which studentship(s) you want to apply for, consulting the information at www.kcl.ac.uk/graduate/funding/database/ and checking your eligibility very carefully. The possibilities include: * Arts& Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentship (deadline: 1 February 2011) - * Graduate School Studentships (deadline: 1 February 2011) 4) Start working on the studentship application forms well before the deadline. Your potential supervisor can discuss your proposal with you, but she/he will need the time to do so. You will also need to contact your referees to ensure that you have their references in time. If you need further assistance, contact ldc@kcl.ac.uk or Professor Ben Rampton (ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk ), inserting ‘Studentships’ in the message Subject. ----- The Centre for Language Discourse & Communication (www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ldc/) is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK) for its research training. LDC works across departments, offering supervision in text, discourse& narrative analysis, social pragmatics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied, educational, historical, cognitive and corpus linguistics. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/cch) is an international leader in the application of technology in research in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences. It is in the School of Arts and Humanities, and operates on a collaborative basis across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries. It has collaborative relationships across King’s College and with a large number of institutions and bodies in the UK and internationally. CCH is involved in more than 30 major research projects, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Trust and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Its PhD programme was inaugurated in 2005 and now has 10 students working in areas of history (19-20C British; early modern Portuguese, Byzantine), translation studies, geography, classics (with computational linguistics; textual editing), authorship attribution and musicology. -- -- A Project of the Royal Irish Academy -- Phone: +353 1 234 2440 http://dho.ie |
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