PhD scholarship

[I Arka]

PhD scholarship in Linguistics: The Languages of Southern New Guinea
 School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences,
University of New England (UNE), Armidale NSW
 
Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship offered by UNE as part of an Australia Research Council funded project: The Languages of Southern New Guinea. The scholarship is valued at Aus$30,000 per year for three years. Funds of around Aus$25,000 will also be available for field work expenses.
The ARC Project
This project will investigate, analyse and record the barely-known languages of Southern New Guinea, stretching across Papua New Guinea and Indonesia just north of Australia. It will produce grammatical descriptions for six of the thirty languages of the area, plus a comparative database and handbook of the languages of the region.
The successful candidate will be based at UNE and work on a language of the Morehead-Maro family, in the Morehead district of Papua New Guinea. S/he will be part of a research team headed by Prof Nicholas Evans of the Australian National University (ANU), and including Prof Jeff Siegel at UNE, and Dr Wayan Arka and two PhD students at ANU.
Requirements
Applicants should hold an Honours or Masters degree in Linguistics, or an equivalent qualification.
Starting date
The successful candidate will start at UNE any time between 29 August 2011 and 9 January 2012.
Application process and further information
The closing date for applications is 4 April 2011. For information about the application process (or for further information about the scholarship), contact Prof Jeff Siegel <jsiegel at une.edu.au>, +61 2 6773 3203. 


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