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Please forward this message to any other colleagues or postgraduates who might be interested. Applicants for the bursary must be registered for their doctoral research at a university in the U.K. Thank you Aidan Coveney POSTGRADUATE BURSARY IN FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES For the current academic year 2001-2002, the AFLS invites applications for a bursary of £2,000 to an outstanding candidate who already has well under way a programme of doctoral research. The bursary is intended to help ensure succesful completion. (At present, it is not intended to offer any separate postgraduate travel grants this year. But in the event of the bursary not being awarded, this decision may be revised, and an invitation to submit applications for travel grants will then be published.) Mode of application: Candidates should send to the Chair of the AFLS Research Committee (see below) a brief CV, a statement of how the research fits in with their career plans (50 words maximum), an outline of the proposed research (200 words maximum, but relevant documentation may also be attached), the names and addresses of two referees (including e-mail), and a signed statement indicating their willingness to comply with the conditions below. Candidates should state their circumstances: it is normally intended that the bursary should not run alongside a full scholarship or a post that is more than half-time. They should also specify the period during which they intend to do the research financed by the bursary, including a terminal date for this stage of the project, plus the planned date for submission of their thesis. Deadline: applications should be received by 15 March 2002 for grants pertaining to the period March - September 2002. Conditions: That the successful candidate: (i) is, or becomes, a member of the AFLS; (ii) sends a report on how the bursary has been used, not later than 2 months after the agreed terminal date. (At the discretion of the Editor, the report may be published in Cahiers AFLS); (iii) offers the AFLS and JFLS first refusal of any appropriate publication which arises out of the research. The research should be in an area of French Linguistics or French Applied Linguistics, and preferably concentrating exclusively on French. In the case of a 'mixed' degree, the French component should constitute at least 50%, and it should be possible to demonstrate that the remaining 50% is directly relevant to the candidate's research interest, e.g. research methods, a comparative element. The AFLS reserves the right not to make an award. Chair of the AFLS Research Committee: Dr Aidan Coveney, Department of French, Exeter University, EX4 4QH. (revised 1.2.2002) ---------------------- Aidan Coveney University of Exeter