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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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PhD position in Stavanger

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/276009/phd-fellowship-in-linguistics

The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the project North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact (NANTiC) and the FLUENT research group (Fleirspråkleg utvikling og endring i nyare tid). 

The North American Norwegian Tonal Accents in Contact project investigates prosody, i.e., suprasegmental phonology, in heritage language Norwegian in the United States. A heritage language is a language that is naturally acquired at home or in the local community, but is not the dominant language of the larger national society. The project focuses on tonal accents in the North American diaspora of Norwegian speakers, which have been in contact with English for over a hundred years. Accordingly, the project has two primary objectives. The first is to examine the consequences of English-Norwegian language contact on North American Norwegian tonal accents and connected language structures. The second is to expand research on the relationship between morphological processes and prosody, especially for heritage languages and the languages they are in contact with.   

The PhD project must be in the fields of phonology, morphology, or morphophonology, and be connected to one or both project objectives. Applicants must propose a project and submit a project proposal. 

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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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PhD position in Bergen

The Department of Foreign Languages invites applications for a PhD position commencing from August 1st 2024, or by agreement. The position is for a fixed-term period of four years. The call is open for projects within the scope of The Literature and Religion research group or the Research group for Aesthetic and Cultural Studies.

The Department of Foreign Languages spans nine different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish language and Latin-American Studies. Teaching and research are conducted in the disciplines of language/linguistics, literature, cultural studies and didactics (http://www.uib.no/en/fremmedsprak). The Department has around 60 permanent academic staff members, along with approximately 20 PhD and postdoctoral fellows, and eleven administrative members of staff.

See: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/259774/phd-position-at-the-department-of-foreign-languages

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Another PhD at OsloMet

This position relates to education and prospective projects must be tied to one of OlsoMet’s research groups. Applicants must also master a Scandinavian language.

Information (in Norwegian) here: Ledig stipendiatstilling ved Fakultet for lærerutdanning og internasjonale studier – OsloMet

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PhD at OsloMet

OsloMet is now advertising for four thematically open PhD positions:

Four research fellowships at the Department of Primary and Lower Secondary Teacher Education – OsloMet

The research group Evaluation and Assessment (EnA) Evaluering og vurdering – OsloMet – OsloMet aims to attract suitable candidates with a background in Assessment for our project Assessment cultures in Norwegian school.

The research group Evaluation and Assessment is an international, interdisciplinary research group which explores the use of assessment and evaluation inside and outside the classroom. Our research stresses the important role and impact of (formative) assessment on students’ learning and development and on student participation and agency in the learning processes. However, we have scarce knowledge of how assessment is understood and enacted in schools by leaders, teachers and students and how assessment cultures are formed and maintained. The purpose of this project is to gain knowledge about existing assessment cultures in Norwegian schools on multiple levels and with various stakeholders. We are seeking PhD candidates who would like to contribute to the development of knowledge within the following areas:

•            Researching assessment practices in classrooms in Norway, and explore the ways these are understood and aligned with current assessment policies

•            The role of key educational stakeholders, e.g., school principals, team leaders/educational coordinators, teachers, and students play in the interpretation and practice of assessment in Norwegian schools

•            The ways local assessment cultures impact learning processes and learning outcomes

The project is of great concern for teacher education and thus for the learning of children and future citizens and further their abilities and possibilities to learn and grow. The project submitted should be innovative and relevant to the focus of the research group

Candidates can contact Dr Harald Eriksen

Harald Eriksen

e-mail: haralde@oslomet.no  

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Oslo PhD openings

OsloMet has a call for four thematically open PhD positions:

Fire stipendiatstillinger ved institutt for grunnskole- og faglærerutdanning – OsloMet

The research group Challenging Picturebooks in Education/Utfordrende bildebøker: Nytenkning om språk- og litteraturopplæring – OsloMet would like to attract suitable candidates with a background in English language teaching for our project on Inclusive Learning with Challenging Picturebooks and Graphic Novels.

The research group Challenging Picturebooks in Education is an international, interdisciplinary research group which explores the use of picturebooks and graphic novels in the classroom. Our research indicates that engagement with challenging picturebooks is conducive to interdisciplinary and inclusive learning, development of critical thinking and intercultural learning. We are seeking PhD candidates who would like to contribute to the development of knowledge within the following areas:

1.           Inclusive Challenging Picturebooks/Graphic Novels (analyses and/or comparative studies, diversity in themes and subjects, including intercultural learning).

2.           Readers and Reading (accessibility, process, and mediation)

3.           Inclusion as accessibility to all readers (across difference and special needs), art and embodiment.

The project should be innovative and relevant to the focus of the research group on challenging picturebooks as reading and teaching materials for students from primary to lower secondary education. Potential candidates must have a good command of a Scandinavian language and English.

Candidates can contact acting leader of Challenging Picturebooks in Education

Sissil Lea Heggernes

e-mail: silehe@oslomet.no

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PhD in multilingualism

“Dear colleagues and friends,

The Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a PhD fellowship in Multilingualism.

The application deadline is October 17th. Please share this e-mail widely.

The official job posting:

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/249841/phd-fellowship-in-multilingualism

Thank you!

Best wishes,

Nadine Kolb & David Natvig”

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PhD at UiS

There is a PhD Fellowship in English available at the Faculty of Arts and Education, Department of Education and Sports Science, University of Stavanger. The application deadline is 1st October 2023, with the start from 1.1.2024.

Follow this link for more.

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NHH PhD Conference

The Multilingual Workplace and Multilingual Society

The PhD course FSK504 (2.5 ECTS) aims to provide in-depth knowledge of topics in language and communication studies relating to migration, integration and the labour market. Research issues that will be discussed are language requirements, workplace interaction, language ideology and politics, and workplace second language learning.

https://www.nhh.no/en/calendar/professional-and-intercultural-communication/2023/fsk504/

Vennligst observer frist for påmelding 1. september og innsending av artikkel(utkast)/prosjektbeskrivelse 10. september.