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-----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marley, Carol Sent: 27 June 2009 18:53 To: baalmail Cc: Clark, Urszula; Grant, Tim; [log in to unmask] Subject: [Baalmail] 3-YEAR PHD BURSARIES AT ASTON UNIVERSITY Dear all, Please find attached and below details of 3-year bursaries for at 6 least PhD students applying to study in the School of Lanugages & Social Sciences at Aston University, Birmingham. We'd be grateful if you could draw these opportunities to the attention of any potentially interested candidates. Thanks! Carol Dr Carol Marley Director, Undergraduate programmes in English Language School of Languages & Social Sciences Aston University Aston Triangle Birmingham B4 7ET UK Tel: +44 (0)121 204 3808 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Three-year PhD Bursaries The School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University is offering SIX three-year fees-only bursaries to students who already have, or who will have completed at the latest by October 2009, a Masters degree in a relevant subject area. The bursaries will enable students to undertake research in any of the School's areas of academic endeavour: English Language, French, German, Politics & International Relations, Public Policy, Sociology, Spanish and Translation Studies. The School's vibrant research culture and the rapidly expanding cohort of full-time research students provide a stimulating intellectual environment. We welcome applications for study in any of the following Research Areas: English Language: corpus linguistics; discourse analysis, including CDA; forensic linguistics, literary linguistics, sociolinguistics and TESOL. French: French political institutions, political leadership and social movements; writing, politics and gender; French language acquisition and development; linguistic semantics; French media and cultural policy; French literature and philosophy. German: Modern German and Austrian culture and literature, German film studies, German business environment, German history, German -Jewish studies, sociolinguistics (multilingualism, migrant and minority languages, dialects), Low German and Yiddish. Politics and International Relations European integration, French politics, German politics, Eastern European politics, politics and religion, justice and morality, regionalism and federalism, immigration, leadership, security and conflict prevention, housing and welfare politics Sociology: globalisation, work and organisations, gender and ethnicity, social theory and social change, knowledge and education, environment and health, public policy Spanish: contemporary Spanish literature and cultural studies, women studies, translation, sociolinguistics, second language teaching, Latin American political discourse and Spanish and Spanish American literature and cultural studies. Translation Studies: translation and politics, translation history, translation and ethnography, translation and advertising, corpus analysis for translation, translation didactics and translator training. The value of each bursary is sufficient to cover Home/EU fees for 2009-10, and will rise annually as the fees the university charges increase in step with inflation. In addition, every student will be able to earn up to £5,000 per annum doing academic support work as requested by the Supervisor and/or Head of the subject area to which s/he is attached. There will, in addition, be ONE three-year bursary limited to proposals in Politics and International Relations and attached to the newly-established Aston Centre for Europe (ACE). This bursary will be offered include a full maintenance grant at funding council level, which is currently £12,490 for 2009-10. If you wish to apply for one of these bursaries, please complete and submit by 24th August 2009 an electronic PhD application form, which can be downloaded from the School's Research Degree website. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/postgraduate-research/research-degrees-structure/#Entry_requirements. This will enable us to check that no necessary details are missing. Your application for the bursary should include a CV, a 2-3,000 word research proposal and the names of two academic referees. Applications for the studentship should be sent by email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, or by post to Ms Margarita Seresht, School of Languages and Social Studies, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET. Please mark the email or envelope with the phrase 'PhD Bursary Application'. To speed up the process, please ask your referees to send their references immediately by post or by email to Ms Margarita Seresht, to whom any queries may also be addressed. Not only applications, but also references, must arrive at the very latest by 24th August 2009. Candidates may be asked to attend for interview or to take part in a telephone-interview. Decisions will be announced by September 18th and candidates will then be expected to register as soon as possible. If you are not a native speaker of English, proof of English language competence will be necessary, usually in the form of a TOEFL or IELTS test score. The minimum scores are as follows: TOEFL: 610 (paper-based) or 253 (computer-based) or 101/102 (Internet-based) IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 7.0 in writing, and 6.0 in speaking, listening and reading) *********************************** ESOL-Research is a forum for researchers and practitioners with an interest in research into teaching and learning ESOL. ESOL-Research is managed by James Simpson at the Centre for Language Education Research, School of Education, University of Leeds. To join or leave ESOL-Research, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ESOL-RESEARCH.html A quick guide to using Jiscmail lists can be found at: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/help/using/quickuser.htm To contact the list owner, send an email to [log in to unmask]