FUNDED STUDENTSHIP IN DESCRIPTIVE/APPLIED LINGUISTICS
AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON.
A 3 year doctoral studentship in sociolinguistics,
text linguistics, discourse analysis, literacy
studies, educational linguistics, or
cognitive/psycho-linguistics, starting in October
2006. The successful candidate will be affiliated to
the College's new Centre for Language, Discourse &
Communication.
King's College London is a major centre for research
on language, communication, society and education. We
have particular interests in the dynamics of language
and literacy in globalisation and intercultural
contact, and we focus on language, literacy and
discourse in everyday interaction, in education,
literature, and popular culture, in new & mass media,
and in medical and workplace settings. We work with
English, English-based Creoles, Chinese, German,
Greek, Hindi, Spanish, Swedish and a range of minority
languages, and we combine linguistics with
ethnography, anthropology, sociology, history, and
psychology, and with quantitative, corpus and
discourse analysis. In recent years, we have provided
a base for more than a dozen externally funded
research projects; we have 20-30 MPhil/PhD students;
we occupy a prominent position in national and
international research networks; and we run four
seminar series and five MAs ('World Englishes';
'Language, Discourse & Communication' (MRes);
'Language, Ethnicity & Education'; 'ELT & Applied
Linguistics; 'German Linguistics'). Our research in
discourse analysis, educational, text and
sociolinguistics was top-rated 5 and 5* in the last
Research Assessment Exercise. To capitalize on this
expertise, the College is now setting up a Centre for
Language, Discourse & Communication. To find out more
about our activity, go to
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hums/ling/content/areas/appliedformal/applied.html
The Studentship will provide funding for a minimum of
three years, covering home tuition fees and a stipend
of £14,300 in the first year, increasing in line with
national levels in subsequent years. If you have got
good qualifications (the equivalent of BA 1 or 2.1
and/or a Distinction or Merit at Masters) and a
well-worked out idea for research that connects with
our expertise, email: [log in to unmask] (entering
LDC Studentship as the subject) for details and an
application form,
or write to:
Dave Flatman (LDC Studentship), Kings College London,
DEPS, Franklin-Wilkins Building WBW, Waterloo Road,
London SE1 9NH.
The closing date for applications is Friday 7 April
2006.
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