Applications are invited for PhD studentships in linguistics and speech sciences at Newcastle University. We encourage applicants who are interested in all aspects of speech perception, production and learning. Studentships, to start in October 2019, will be awarded via open competition for two doctoral training partnerships:
- AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium, deadline Wednesday 9th January 2019.
- ESRC Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NINEDTP), deadline Friday 18th January 2019.
Please contact the following supervisors if you are interested in their broad research areas:
Ghada Khattab
ghada.khattab[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition, accent/dialect acquisition, L2 phonology, and bilingualism and cognition.
For more details, see:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/staff/profil/ghadakhattab.html#research
Jalal Al-Tamimi
jalal.al-Tamimi[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: L1/L2 phonology, speech production and perception, laboratory phonology, speech classification and recognition.
For more details, see:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/jalalal-tamimi.html#research
Laurence White
laurence.white[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Prosody in speech perception and production, first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders. For more details, see:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/laurencewhite.html#research
Danielle Turton
Danielle.Turton[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Phonological variation, diachronic phonology, language variation and change, ultrasound tongue imaging, phonetics-phonology interface, laboratory phonology.
For more details, see: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/danielleturton.html#research
The AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium for Doctoral Training Partnership
(NBCDTP) offers tuition fees and £14,777 per annum funding for 42 months (http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/). Award-holders may extend their studentship to pursue an approved research training programme or to undertake a placement by a further 6 months, and successful applicants can apply for additional funding during their studentship to support their research costs and individual training needs. In addition to the standard PhD pathway, students can apply under the collaborative doctoral pathway, through which applicants develop a research project in collaboration with a partner organisation, and spend a substantial portion of their doctoral study at the partner organisation.
The ESRC Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership
(NINEDTP) offer +3, +3.5, 1+3 and, for Language Based Area Studies only, 2+3 awards (https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/). The awards cover tuition fees and a stipend of £14,770 per year for the duration of the degree. Award-holders may also apply for research training support grants, internships and placements, and overseas fieldwork and difficult language training, as well as overseas institutional visits. However, these need to be laid out clearly at the application stage and are considered on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the standard PhD pathway, students can apply under the collaborative doctoral pathway, through which applicants develop a research project in collaboration with a partner organisation.