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Call for PhD Students in (Applied) Linguistics (Quantitative / Corpus-Based Research)

E-mail from Martin Schweinberger, U of Queensland, Australia:

Dear colleagues,

My name is Martin Schweinberger (see martinschweinberger.de or my UQ profile for details). I am a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane), and I am currently looking for motivated PhD students with strong skills in R and experience in quantitative analysis. Please feel free to forward this call to colleagues or networks where potential candidates might be reached.

Research focus

I welcome candidates interested in developing quantitative research projects using English (corpus) data. While I am open to a broad range of proposals within my expertise, I am particularly interested in supervising projects on:

  • Sociolinguistics / Language Variation and Change / World Englishes
    • E.g., General extenders, terms of address and salutations, vulgarity
  • Learner Language / Applied Linguistics / Corpus Phonetics / Learner Corpus Research
    • E.g., Vowel production and voice onset times among L1 and L2 English speakers, Discourse particles and markers in learner and L2 English speech, Fluency and pausing in learner and L1 speech, Accent, intelligibility, and comprehension
  • Text Analytics / Digital Humanities / Corpus Linguistics
    • E.g., Speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text, Evaluation of association and keyness measures

Candidate requirements

Potential candidates should:

Application process

In Australia, PhD entry is tied to scholarship applications rather than standard job-style applications. Once I have confirmed my supervision of a project, candidates will need to prepare and submit their materials through the UQ system. Detailed information and scholarship opportunities can be found here

Scholarship application deadlines:

  • RQ1 (Start January): 30 September
  • RQ2 (Start April): 31 December
  • RQ3 (Start July): 31 March
  • RQ4 (Start October): 30 June

About UQ

The University of Queensland is consistently ranked among the world’s top 50 universities. It offers a vibrant international research culture, excellent resources, and an active PhD community. Brisbane is a dynamic, welcoming, and affordable city – an outstanding place to live and study.

If you know of any promising students who may be interested, I would be very grateful if you could share this information with them.

Best regards,
Martin Schweinberger
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Cultures
The University of Queensland

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Postdoc language acquisition Czech Republic

A 3-year post. doc. position in English and L2/Ln acquisition is available at Masaryk University, Czech Republic:

https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/available-positions/79632

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ESSE Doctoral Symposium 2025

Announcement: extension of deadline

To enable all PhD students who would like to take part in this year’s ESSE Doctoral Symposium to submit a proposal, the ESSE Executive has decided to extend the period during which applications can be accepted to 31 January 2025.

Full information about the Symposium, which will take place on 3 and 4 September 2025 at the University of Malta, in the capital city of Valletta, can be found here.

Supervisors of PhD students in the second or later year of their doctoral trajectory should encourage their students to participate. Substantial financial support is available to mitigate the costs of travel and accommodation.

The hundreds of PhD-holders in English Studies who participated in the Symposium at some point in the run-up to their graduation can testify that the experience was important or even decisive for the content of their thesis and their academic career. Not only do the attendees get the chance to present their ideas (and their anxieties) to an international audience composed of experts in research methodology and their peers from other European countries, but they also can profit from opportunities to form international connections and to enjoy the benefits of research collaboration.

The ESSE Board, representing all thirty-three Associations federated within the Society, is enthusiastic in its support for the Symposium. The extension of the application deadline will make it possible for that support to be translated into reality again this year.

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ESSE bursaries and support schemes 2025

It is my pleasure to inform you that the announcements for various ESSE research support schemes for 2025 are now posted at the ESSE website https://essenglish.org.

Here is the list of various support schemes that ESSE offers, all posted at https://essenglish.org/research-and-support/:  

ESSE Doctoral Symposium, for PhD students working on their dissertations: https://essenglish.org/doctoral-symposium/ . The deadline for application is 15 January 2025. 

There is also a support scheme for the national associations:

Conference plenary speaker support https://essenglish.org/conference-plenary-speaker-support/, to invite plenary speakers to their national associations’ conferences,

Additionally, and importantly, there is also an announcement for the positions of ESSE Treasurer and ESSE Secretary. The deadline for applications is 30 April 2025. More details how to apply at https://essenglish.org/esse-announcements/.

Best regards,

Biljana

Prof. Biljana Mišić Ilić

ESSE Secretary

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
esse.secretary@outlook.com

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NAES 2025: “Attending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on Anglophonia”

Nordic Association for English Studies Triennial ConferenceÅbo / Turku Finland, 8–10 May 2025

In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of attention has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, the “contemporary experience […] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much of our immediate environment”.[1] At the same time, contemporary society has been significantly impacted by seemingly conflicting forces and paradoxical processes of attention and distraction in various institutional, cultural, and technological contexts. The focus of this conference will be on any of the many ways in which the field of English Studies – and disciplinary perspectives from literature, culture, and history to linguistics and education – addresses and is shaped by various aspects of attention. These range from tensions between mediated experience and phenomenal perception to how political and cultural narratives direct our attention to some aspects of society while creating blind spots elsewhere. In addition to abstracts exploring this theme, the NAES are glad to invite panel suggestions on administrative issues as well as proposals for papers on other areas of interest related to Nordic English Studies.

Themes for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Attending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on English Studies
  • Surveillance, control, and the politics of attention
  • Technology and the media: forms of attention and inattention
  • Borders, surveys, and mappings
  • Nordic English Studies and attention in education
  • Local, global, and transnational attention – place, mobility, and migration
  • Hotspots and blind spots: geography and the environment
  • Attention, crisis, and catastrophe: personal and social perspectives
  • Attention and the phenomenology of perception
  • The aesthetics and poetics of attention in literature and the arts; authorship, narrative, perspective
  • Generational and societal changes in attention
  • Religion, politics, and social groups
  • Ageing and attention
  • Attending to language: linguistics, translation, and the multilingual society
  • Diachronic and/or synchronic approaches and methods

Proposals for individual 20-minute presentations or panels/roundtables (3 speakers) should be sent by email to info-naes@abo.fi by 16 December 2024.

Proposals should include: name(s), institutional affiliation(s), paper title(s), a 250-word abstract  and a brief biographical note of up to 50 words for each participant. (Three speaker panels may allow 200 words for the overall proposal, 200 words for each speaker’s abstract, and 50 words for each individual biography.) Panel/roundtable proposals should also identify the contact person for the entire session. Prospective speakers will be notified of a decision by 30 January 2025. At the time of the conference, accepted speakers will have 20 minutes at their disposal (with an extra 10 minutes set aside for discussion), and should be fully paid-up members of the NAES.

Hosted by Åbo Akademi University and the University of Turku, the conference is organized in collaboration with the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) whose concurrent annual conference in Åbo / Turku is titled “Attending to Ireland”.

Conference Web page: https://blogs2.abo.fi/naes-efacis2025/ 

Åbo / Turku (the former capital of Finland) is usually very pleasant at the beginning of May. And as the city is situated on the edge of the Finnish archipelago, we envisage that the conference programme will include an optional boat trip through the islands, a visit to Turku Castle, poetry readings, a musical entertainment, and more …

–  KEYNOTE SPEAKERS –

Fiona Farr

Lorna Hutson

Christopher Morash

Andrew Newby

Invited Poet: Desmond Egan

[1] Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (The MIT Press, 1999), p. 1.

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EFACIS 2025: “Attending to Ireland”

European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies ConferenceÅbo / Turku, Finland, 8–11 May 2025

In an ever bustling, ever hurrying world, the concept of “attention” has become increasingly important. As Jonathan Crary observed in Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, the “contemporary experience […] requires that we effectively cancel out or exclude from consciousness much of our immediate environment”.[1] At the same time, the contemporary society, in Ireland and elsewhere, has been shaped by seemingly conflicting forces and paradoxical processes of attention and distraction in various institutional, cultural, and technological contexts. The focus of this conference will be on any of the many ways in which the field of Irish Studies – and disciplinary perspectives from literature, culture, and history to linguistics and education – addresses and is shaped by various aspects of attention. These range from tensions between mediated experience and phenomenal perception to how political and cultural narratives direct our attention to some aspects of society while creating blind spots elsewhere.

Themes for discussion include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Attending to Ireland as/and island(s): culture, geography, and the state
  • Surveillance, control, and the politics of attention
  • Technology and the media: forms of attention and inattention
  • Borders, surveys, and mappings and the 100th anniversary of The Irish Boundary Commission
  • Irish Studies and attention in education
  • Local, global, and transnational attention – place, mobility, and migration
  • Hotspots and blind spots: geography and the environment
  • Attention, crisis, and catastrophe: personal and social perspectives
  • Attention and the phenomenology of perception
  • The aesthetics and poetics of attention in literature and the arts; authorship, narrative, perspective
  • Generational and societal changes in attention
  • Religion, politics, and social groups
  • Ageing and attention in Ireland
  • Attending to language: linguistics, translation, and the multilingual society
  • Diachronic and/or synchronic approaches and methods

Proposals for individual 20-minute presentations or panels/roundtables (3 speakers) should be sent by email to info-efacis@abo.fi by 16 December 2024.

Proposals should include: name(s), institutional affiliation(s), paper title(s), a 250-word abstract  and a brief biographical note of up to 50 words for each participant. (Three speaker panels may allow 200 words for the overall proposal, 200 words for each speaker’s abstract, and 50 words for each individual biography.) Panel/roundtable proposals should also identify the contact person for the entire session. Speakers should be fully paid-up members of EFACIS.

The organisers accept proposals and papers in either the Irish or English language./ Cuirtear fáilte roimh pháipéir i nGaeilge nó i mBéarla.

Hosted by Åbo Akademi University and the University of Turku, the conference is organized in collaboration with the Nordic Association for English Studies (NAES) whose concurrent annual conference in Åbo / Turku is titled “Attending to the Islands: Archipelagic Perspectives on Anglophonia”.

Conference Web page: https://blogs2.abo.fi/naes-efacis2025/

Åbo / Turku (the former capital of Finland) is usually very pleasant at the beginning of May. And as the city is situated on the edge of the Finnish archipelago, we envisage that the conference programme will include an optional boat trip through the islands, a visit to Turku Castle, poetry readings, a musical entertainment, and more …

– KEYNOTE SPEAKERS –

Fiona Farr

Christopher Morash

Lorna Hutson

Andrew Newby

Invited Poet: Desmond Egan

Information on Werner Huber grants for EFACIS PhD students may be found at: https://www.efacis.eu/content/werner-huber-grants.

[1] Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (The MIT Press, 1999), p. 1.

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PhD course in Bergen

We’d like to announce a 5-day PhD course, “Multimodal Literacy and Aesthetic Engagement” (5 ECTS), which will be offered at The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen campus, on 16-20 September 2024. The course will be offered in hybrid form and is free (although we cannot provide accommodation or travel bursaries).

We invite all PhD candidates in literature and / or cultural studies or a related field (Media Studies, Literacy, English Education) to apply via by 15 June 2024. Applications from students who have received an MA and hope to apply for a PhD will also be considered.

To apply, and for more information, please visit the course website: https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/courses/2024/phd915/

Anyone in need of more information may email the organizers at jhc@hvl.no or zva@hvl.no.

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BIP Summer School

A blended intensive programme offered by the University of the Balearic Islands’ British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group (BRICCS)

The module “is designed to introduce the BIP’s most important topics, including (1) the rise of a new cultural sensibility accounting for the re-emergence of the politics of place, renewed forms of nationalism, the shifts of political ideologies (the rise of the far right and the emergence of anti-establishment movements) and even Islamic fundamentalism; (2) climate change (and how literature and film can help raise awareness); and (3) how social, ethical and ecological commitment can also be found in cultural products other than literature and film (which humanities students are by far best acquainted with).”

More information here.

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Annual NORSES meeting

NORSES members are invited to the annual meeting in room 227 in Midtbyen skole on Campus Hamar on Friday 2 December at 09.00.

Members can also follow the meeting online (a Zoom link has been shared via e-mail).

Agenda
1/22 Report from board meeting of ESSE in Mainz
2/22 Membership and recruitment
3/22 Finances
4/22 NORSES website
5/22 Future direction of the society
6/22 Any other business

On behalf the NORSES board
Knut Øystein Høvik (chair) Christina Sandhaug (treasurer) Svenn-Arve Myklebost (webmaster)