31.3640, Support: English; Discipline of Linguistics: PhD, Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership

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Subject: 31.3640, Support: English; Discipline of Linguistics: PhD, Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership

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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:04:10
From: Joan Rahilly [j.rahilly at qub.ac.uk]
Subject: English; Discipline of Linguistics: PhD, Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership, UK

 Institution/Organization: Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership 
Department:  
Web Address: http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/ 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Discipline of Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

Funded PhD studentship: ‘Eavesdropping on our past: Mapping the oral
soundscape of Northern Irish English’. 

Location: Newcastle University, UK and Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast invite applications for a
full-time PhD studentship, funded by the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training
Partnership under the Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme. The Doctoral
student will work with supervisors in Newcastle and Belfast and in
collaboration with National Museums Northern Ireland, on a project entitled
‘Eavesdropping on our past: Mapping the oral soundscape of Northern Irish
English’.

Full details of the project are available here:
http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/teaching/northernbridge/Rahilly,%2
0Joan_QUB_NMNI.pdf 

Closing date:
Applicants must complete their chosen University’s online postgraduate
application form and submit it (in this case via the application portal to
Newcastle University or Queen’s University Belfast) by 16:00 on Wednesday 13th
January 2021.

Candidate specifications:
Applicants must possess:
- A primary degree (with at least 2.1. Honours or equivalent) including
substantial coverage of topics in language and linguistics, specifically
including language transcription (orthographic and phonetic); and 
- A Masters degree in language and/or linguistics (at or around distinction
grade or equivalent).

Applicants’ ability to produce appropriate language transcription will be
tested at interview.

For further details of essential and desirable criteria for the project, see
the project description. Additional eligibility criteria are available here:
http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/competition/eligibility/

Potential applicants are invited to contact the project supervisors before
submitting an application:
- Professor Karen Corrigan in Newcastle (k.p.corrigan at ncl.ac.uk)
- Professor Joan Rahilly (J.Rahilly at QUB.ac.uk) in Queen’s University, Belfast.

Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 8th February,
2021. Results will be announced from Thursday 15th April, 2021. Successful
candidates are expected to accept (or decline) their award within two weeks of
notification of the outcome.
 

Web Address for Applications: https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php OR https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ 

Contact Information: 
	Professor Joan Rahilly
	j.rahilly at qub.ac.uk  


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