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foNETiks
A network newsletter for
the International Phonetic Association
and for the Phonetic Sciences
April 2008: Addendum
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Research Studentships
in the University of Strathclyde, Faculty of Education
The following awards are offered for uptake in October 2008. The successful candidates will receive a stipend and fee-waiver for the first year of their studies and, subject to successful academic progress reviews and successful interviews with the relevant Heads of Department, will be employed as Graduate Teaching/Research Assistants in their second and third years.
All applicants should hold at least a good Honours degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline and normally a Masters degree, which included research training.
The application of the STI as a clinical research tool.
This studentship is based in the Speech and Language Therapy Division in the Dept. of Educational and Professional Studies. The project will be supervised by experts in the clinical field (Dr. Lowit) as well as in research methods (Dr. Karagiannidou), and will involve some collaboration with other institutions to provide the student with as wide a research experience as possible. The project involves investigations of clinical populations with speech disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease, ataxia, etc.) with regard to performance variability, as measured by the spatio-temporal variability index (STI). The investigation is aimed at providing further information on speech motor planning in disordered speech and at establishing the usefulness of the STI in reflecting clinical issues such as severity, performance change, treatment efficacy or differences in underlying pathology. The studentship is suited to someone with a background in phonetics, speech and language therapy, or psychology and an aptitude in computing (acquisition of specific skills in acoustic analysis and data evaluation will be part of the PhD training).
Informal enquiries and further details from Anja Lowit [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
For application forms, please contact the Faculty of Education Research Office, University of Strathclyde, Southbrae Drive, Glasgow G13 1PP: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Deadline for applications is Monday 21st April 2008.