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Dear colleagues<br>
I have been asked to add that the research areas listed in the original
posting<br>
were merely indicative and not exclusive, and that many related research
areas <br>
(in particular, TESOL) should be included. Please see the webpage for a
fuller list <br>
of staff research interests:<br>
<a href="http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/resint.jsp" eudora="autourl">
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/resint.jsp<br>
</a>Best<br>
Ramesh<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:18:40
+0100<br>
To: corpora@uib.no<br>
From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy <r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk><br>
Subject: Aston University, Birmingham, UK: The Newbury Studentship in the
School of Languages and Social Sciences<br><br>
<b>Aston University, Birmingham, UK: The Newbury Studentship in the
School of Languages and Social Sciences<br><br>
</b>In memory of Phill Newbury, a second year doctoral student at Aston
University,<br>
who tragically died in April of this year, the School of Languages and
Social<br>
Sciences is offering a studentship, preferably for a student who already
holds<br>
a Masters degree in a relevant subject area, to enable them to
undertake<br>
research in any of the research areas of the School Corpus
Linguistics;<br>
Critical Discourse Analysis; English Language; Forensic Linguistics;
French<br>
Linguistics, Culture, Politics or Media; German Language or
Literature;<br>
Language and the Law; Spanish Culture; International Relations; Politics
and<br>
Modern History; Sociology; Translation Studies. It is hoped that the
successful<br>
candidate will join the School on October 1st.<br><br>
The total value of the studentship is some £15,150 per annum. For a
student who<br>
has been resident in the EU for the past three years this amount will
be<br>
sufficient to cover the University fees and also to provide a
maintenance<br>
allowance of £12,000 per annum. The fees for Overseas students are
currently<br>
£8,750 per annum, so the maintenance grant for such a student would be
reduced<br>
to some £6,400 per annum.<br><br>
We intend to award the scholarship to the candidate who, in our opinion
has the<br>
best thought-out research proposal. In order to allow potential
candidates<br>
sufficient time to prepare their proposals, the closing date for
applications<br>
will be mid-day on Monday August 14th and interviews will take place in
the<br>
week of September 4th . Please make sure you will be able to attend
for<br>
interview if invited.<br><br>
Your research proposal should be 2-3,000 words long and should include a
brief<br>
review of the relevant literature, a statement of the research
question(s), an<br>
indication of how the question(s) will be approached and an outline of
how the<br>
first year’s work might be organised. As a guide, we would normally
expect that<br>
you spend much of the first six months familiarising yourself with
the<br>
literature and discovering and testing potential analytical tools.
<b>Please send<br>
the proposal both electronically and in hard copy form to Ms Margarita
Chu -<br>
m.chu@aston.ac.uk.<br><br>
</b>To speed up the process, please submit an electronic PhD application
form as<br>
soon as you decide to apply for the studentship; this will enable us to
check<br>
that no necessary details are missing - the form is available from Ms
Chu. Your<br>
application for the studentship should also include a CV, the names of
two<br>
academic referees and, if you are not a native speaker, proof of
competence in<br>
English, usually in the form of a TOEFL or IELTS test score. The minimum
test<br>
scores are as follows:<br>
TOEFL: 610 (paper-based) or 253 (computer-based) or 101/102
(Internet-based)<br>
IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 7.0 in writing, and 6.0 in speaking, listening and
reading)<br><br>
Applications for the studentship should be addressed to Ms Margarita Chu,
at the<br>
address below, to reach her at the very latest by Monday August 14th
2006. To<br>
speed up the process please ask your referees to send their
references<br>
directly, by post or by email, to Ms Chu, m.chu@aston.ac.uk. The
references<br>
must also arrive by Monday August 14th.<br><br>
If successful you will be expected to make a teaching contribution of up
to four<br>
hrs p/w and to provide research assistance to your supervisor of up to 2
hours<br>
p/w.<br><br>
<b>Address for correspondence: Ms Margarita Chu, School of Languages and
Social<br>
Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET.
Please mark<br>
the envelope with the phrase ‘Phill Newbury PhD Studentship
Application'.<br>
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