[Corpora-List] Aston University: Three-year Fees-only PhD Bursaries

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Applications for the studentship should be sent 
by email to 
<mailto:s.cade at aston.ac.uk>m.seresht at aston.ac.uk, 
or by post to Ms Margarita Seresht, School of 
Languages and Social Studies, Aston University, 
Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET.  Please mark 
the envelope with the phrase ‘PhD Bursary 
Application’. Applications and references must 
reach her at the very latest by 1st May 2007

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Three-year Fees-only PhD Bursaries

The School of Languages and Social Sciences at 
Aston University is offering seven fees-only 
three-year bursaries to students who already 
have, or who will have completed at the latest by 
October 2007, a Masters degree in a relevant 
subject area.  The bursaries will enable students 
to undertake research in any of the School’s 
areas of academic endeavour: English, French, 
German, Politics & International Relations, 
Sociology, Spanish and Translation Studies. The 
School’s vibrant research culture - Grade 5 
rating in the last RAE - and the rapidly 
expanding cohort of full time research students, 
provides a stimulating intellectual environment.

Research areas in English at Aston are: corpus 
linguistics; discourse analysis, including CDA; 
forensic linguistics, literary linguistics, 
sociolinguistics and TESOL. We welcome 
applications for study in any of these fields.

The value of the bursary, £3,240, is sufficient 
to cover Home/EU fees for 2007-8, and will rise 
annually as the university’s fees increase in 
step with inflation. An overseas student could 
set the bursary against the normal annual 
overseas registration fees, which for 2007-8 are 
£8,980, thereby reducing the fees payable for 2007-8 to £5740.

If you wish to apply, please complete and submit, 
as soon as possible, an electronic PhD 
application form, which can be downloaded from 
the University’s website. This will enable us to 
check that no necessary details are missing. Your 
application should also include a CV, as well as 
a 2,000-3,000 word research proposal and the 
names of two academic referees. To speed up the 
process, please ask your referees to send their 
references immediately by post or by email to Ms 
Seresht, (see below for address),


If you are not a native speaker of English, proof 
of English language competence will be necessary, 
usually in the form of a TOEFL or IELTS test 
score. The minimum test scores are as follows:

TOEFL: 610 (paper-based) or 253 (computer-based) or 101/102 (Internet-based)

IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 7.0 in writing, and 6.0 in 
speaking, listening and reading)

Applications for the studentship should be sent 
by email to 
<mailto:s.cade at aston.ac.uk>m.seresht at aston.ac.uk, 
or by post to Ms Margarita Seresht, School of 
Languages and Social Studies, Aston University, 
Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET.  Please mark 
the envelope with the phrase ‘PhD Bursary 
Application’. Applications and references must 
reach her at the very latest by 1st May 2007



Ramesh Krishnamurthy

Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages 
and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
[Room NX08, North Wing of Main Building] ; Tel: 
+44 (0)121-204-3812 ; Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766
http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp

Project Leader, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network): http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/ 
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