[lg policy] Sheffield Hallam University Vice-Chancellor's PhD scholarships (UK/EU students only)

[Dave Sayers]

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 :)

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.

The online advertisements and official deadline aren't yet finalised but you can 
register to be notified: 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/campaigns/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-opportunities. If the 
eligibility requirements are the same as last year it'll be limited to UK or EU 
applicants I'm afraid. The deadline will probably be late February.

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: 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/specialisms/humanites-research-centre/staff.

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: askhallam at shu.ac.uk.

Best of luck to all applicants!

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers



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