ESRC PhD studentships in the Department of Linguistics and English Language 
at Manchester: Linguistics Pathway

As part of the University of Manchester, Linguistics and English Language 
is now a member of the ESRC's North West Doctoral Training College (DTC). 
The North West DTC receives the largest number of ESRC PhD studentships in 
England, and applications are now open to candidates wishing to undertake a 
PhD within the Linguistics Pathway of the NWDTC. Successful applicants will 
benefit from joint training provision with Lancaster.

Applicants must have an offer of a place on one of the following doctoral
programmes before they can be considered for an ESRC DTC studentship in our
School:

*PhD in Linguistics and English Language. This is a +3 (three-year) 
programme for those with a prior Masters.

*Integrated MA/PhD in Linguistics. This is a 1+3 (four-year) programme for
those without a prior Masters in linguistics or closely related field.

We welcome applicants from the UK and the EU in all ESRC-fundable areas of 
Linguistics and English Language, but especially in sociolinguistics, 
corpus linguistics, experimental phonetics and language documentation 
projects with a social science component.

Manchester is an international centre for linguistics and English language. 
The department is virtually unique in the UK and beyond in the breadth of 
subject areas and theoretical approaches represented by its members, many 
of whom are internationally renowned scholars in their specialisms. 
Linguistics and English Language has 17 members of staff and over 25 
postgraduate research students. The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 has 
judged more than half of Linguistics and English Language work to be in the 
top two research categories of 4* ('world-leading') and 3* 
('internationally excellent'). Our research page at 
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/research/ provides information 
on the specific research interests of academic staff and links to their 
individual pages.

How to Apply

You must apply via the University's standard postgraduate application 
procedure (see http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/) by 
Friday 18 March 2011. Once you are in receipt of an offer, you can then 
apply for an ESRC DTC studentship. The deadline for the ESRC studentships 
is 5.00pm on 25th March 2011. Details of the ESRC application process will 
be made available in due course here: 
http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/

Please note: you are advised to submit your PhD application to the 
University as early as possible, to ensure that you are in receipt of an 
offer in advance of the 25 March 2011 deadline. Students will be informed 
of the outcome of the ESRC DTC application process by the end of April 
2011.

Any enquiries relating specifically to the submission of applications for 
the School's doctoral programmes should be directed to: 
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PG Admissions

School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3559
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 3031

More information on the ESRC's DTC scheme can be found also at: 
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/guidance/postgraduates/doctoral-training-centres.aspx

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