6 November: FYI -- PhD funding (linguistics), UK

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A range of post-graduate studentships are available for 2016-17 entry
at the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc at King’s College London, offering
supervision in text, discourse & narrative analysis, pragmatics,
linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied,
educational, cognitive and corpus linguistics:

Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
Studentships
(deadline: 29 January 2016). These cover sociolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, interactional discourse analysis,
linguistic ethnography, areas of applied linguistics,
computational linguistics, educational linguistics and
language & literacy education. Candidates can apply either
for a three year PhD Studentship or for a four year
Studentship which involves a one year MA and a three year
PhD.

Arts & Humanities Research Council/London Arts & Humanities
Partnership (AHRC/LAHP)
Studentships
(deadline: 29 January 2016). This covers research on
linguistic structure, history, theory and description,
including stylistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics,
corpus studies, translation, and some areas of applied
linguistics. Studentships last three years.

Studentships administered by the King’s College Graduate
School
(http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/pgr.aspx).

To apply, you should have excellent qualifications, as well as clear
research idea if you are applying for a three year PhD award. It is
important to identify and contact a potential supervisor as soon as
possible, referring to our webpages at www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc , and you also need to submit an ordinary
admissions application.

If you are not sure about potential supervisors, please contact
ldc@kcl.ac.uk or
ben.rampton@kcl.ac.uk.

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