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)
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Aidan Coveney
University of Exeter
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