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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Funding for Doctoral Research in French Studies<a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">December 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The University of Manchester is offering a number of awards to which individuals wishing to work on PhD topics related to French Studies are encouraged to apply. French Studies at Manchester achieved
one of the best scores for its field in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. Our research is strongly interdisciplinary, and we run a thriving Centre for Research in the Visual Cultures of the French-Speaking World (</span><a href="http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/crivcof/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">CRIVCOF</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">).
PhD students at Manchester are supported by a dynamic research culture and excellent opportunities for research training (</span><a href="http://www.artsmethods.manchester.ac.uk/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">http://www.artsmethods.manchester.ac.uk/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">We offer expert PhD supervision across a wide range of areas, including:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Linguistics; pragmatics; semantics; variation/change; discourse/interaction; functional/cognitive linguistics (</span><a href="http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Prof
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Discourse markers; context construction; cohesion in discourse; biolinguistics; argumentation theory (</span><a href="http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=t.nyan"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Dr
Thanh Nyan</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For further information on individual colleagues’ research interests and publications, visit:
</span><a href="http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/StaffList.aspx?ou=I4042"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/StaffList.aspx?ou=I4042</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The two main sources of funding, which comprise a fee-bursary and a maintenance grant, are
<b>AHRC awards</b> and the University-funded <b>President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards</b>.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">1. AHRC awards</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are competitive and provide payment of tuition fees and a maintenance stipend for UK students, and tuition fees (and a maintenance stipend, subject
to eligibility criteria) for EU students. The closing date for AHRC applications is <strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Fr</span></strong>i<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">day 2 March 2012.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">2. President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The University of Manchester has launched a new 2.5m investment in PhD training with the creation of the
<b>President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards</b>. These awards are open to all new PhD students from all nationalities and research areas. The award covers tuition fees (home/EU or international, as appropriate) and the equivalent of the research council stipend
(£13,590 in 2011-12). A completed funding application form should be submitted by
<b>Friday 2 March 2012</b> at the latest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">To ensure that you are holding an offer of a place by the funding closing date, please submit your online application for a place on the PhD programme no later than</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">
Wednesday 15 February 2012.</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For funding information and guidelines about how to apply, please visit:
</span><a href="http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For informal inquiries about the academic side of the application process, please contact:
<b>Professor Dee Reynolds</b> (</span><a href="mailto:dee.reynolds@manchester.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">dee.reynolds@manchester.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">)</span><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For questions about the administrative side of the application process, please contact:
<b>Ms Rachel Corbishley</b> (</span><a href="mailto:Rachel.Corbishley@manchester.ac.uk"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Rachel.Corbishley@manchester.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">__________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Professor of French Language and Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Tel.: +44(0)161 306-1733<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Web site: http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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