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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">It's that time of year
where you'll see a lot of messages for PhD scholarships at
different UK universities. In many cases that's a little cheeky
because they're actually part of the national 'Doctoral Training
Partnerships' scheme, not specific to individual universities. But
Sheffield Hallam University really does have a different fund for
PhDs so it seems fair to mention it as such :)<br>
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The Vice-Chancellor's PhD scholarships are university-wide,
awarded on the basis of written application plus in-person
interview. They're extremely competitive, but then of course all
PhD schemes are - and there's no rule against applying here whilst
also applying elsewhere. Applicants will usually have a Masters
degree, and in many cases a record of other relevant experience.<br>
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The online advertisements and official deadline aren't yet
finalised but you can register to be notified:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.shu.ac.uk/campaigns/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-opportunities">https://www.shu.ac.uk/campaigns/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-opportunities</a>.
If the eligibility requirements are the same as last year it'll be
limited to UK or EU applicants I'm afraid. </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">The deadline will probably be late February.</font><br>
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Anyway, the reason I'm sending this message now instead of when
everything is formally announced is that PhD applications take
time, and applicants would do well to start scoping out potential
supervisees now, ready to start the forms when the time comes. I
for one am very much available to supervise PhDs and I'd love to
hear from potential applicants in my areas of interest: broadly
speaking language policy and variationist sociolinguistics (not
necessarily combined!). There are lots of other specialisms
represented across the university. For staff in the Humanities
Research Centre (that includes my area, linguistics) take a look
here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/specialisms/humanites-research-centre/staff">https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/specialisms/humanites-research-centre/staff</a>.<br>
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Generally speaking I'm not otherwise useful for administrative
information about the scholarships. For that you're best off
signing up on the website linked above, and/or contacting the
Admissions team: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:askhallam@shu.ac.uk">askhallam@shu.ac.uk</a>.<br>
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Best of luck to all applicants!<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
--<br>
Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132<br>
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University |
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.shu.ac.uk">www.shu.ac.uk</a><br>
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD |
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.wiserd.ac.uk">www.wiserd.ac.uk</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a> | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers">http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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