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<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Revised call for applications. Note
eligibility criteria have changed and current PhD students may now apply.
Deadline for applications 31 March 2014.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 12pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
British Council and The Thailand Research Fund have launched a new initiative
to encourage international research collaboration between ambitious young
researchers from the UK and early career researchers from Thailand enabling
them to interact, learn from each other and explore opportunities for building
long-lasting research collaborations.</span></p>
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<h4 style="margin:12pt 0in 0.1in;border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal">A workshop on “Collaboration for
language preservation and revitalisation in Asia”, hosted by SOAS and Mahidol,
will be held in Bangkok, Thailand 20-23 May 2014. The workshop will bring
together researchers and practitioners in language documentation and
description, language policy/planning and mother tongue-based multilingual
education to discuss the latest developments in their research, creating a new
common ground for initiatives in language preservation, revitalisation and
human development. SOAS and Mahidol are committed to interdisciplinary
approaches to the documentation and revitalisation of languages in Asia and
throughout the world.</span></h4>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The workshop will provide a unique
opportunity for sharing research expertise and networking. During the workshop
early career researchers will have the opportunity to present their research in
the form of a poster and to discuss this with established researchers from the
UK and Thailand. There will be a focus on building up links for future
collaborations and participants selected on the basis of their research
potential and ability to build longer term links. All travel and accommodation
costs will be paid for selected participants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Topics to be covered in the workshop
include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">how researchers and resource developers can support
communities to sustain their linguistic ecologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">language revitalisation, personal/community identity and
sustainable human development</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">production of culturally and pedagogically appropriate
linguistic and digital multimedia resources for language valorization,
supporting learners and teachers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">techniques in digital data collection, management,
dissemination and preservation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> preservation of traditional knowledge and indigenous
paradigms of teaching/learning for mother tongue-based multilingual education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 24pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ethnolinguistic identity, reconciliation and peace building</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A fieldtrip to an ethnolinguistic
minority community is planned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12.7pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Applications are now called from </span><span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Early Career
Researchers enrolled in or holding a PhD (or having equivalent research
experience) in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Anthropology, Education, Human
Geography or a related field, and having up to 10 years post-PhD research experience.
Participants must have an academic affiliation (either a post, researcher
association, fellowship or PhD enrolment) at a recognised research institution
in the UK. For further details and a downloadable application form go to: <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/british-council-researcher-links/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/british-council-researcher-links/</a>.
The deadline for applications is 31 March 2014.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For any queries from UK-based researchers please write to
<a href="mailto:elap@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">elap@soas.ac.uk</a>.</span></p><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br>Prof Peter K. Austin<br>Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics<br>Director, Endangered Languages Academic Programme<div>
Research Tutor and PhD Convenor<br>
Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG<br>United Kingdom<br><br>web: <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa" target="_blank">http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa</a></div>
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