2 PhD STUDENTSHIPS: BSL CORPUS PROJECT

[Adam C Schembri]

TWO NEW PHD STUDENTSHIPS (STARTING IN 2008): BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE  
CORPUS PROJECT (DCAL Research Centre, University College London & ESRC  
Centre for Bilingualism, Bangor University)

Two new three-year studentships covering UK/EU fees and a standard  
bursary (£14,300 p.a.) are now available for PhD research linked to  
the British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project. The BSL Corpus Project  
is a three year project (January 2008-December 2010) funded by the UK  
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) that aims to (1) create an  
on-line, open access corpus of annotated BSL digital video data and  
(2) to conduct corpus-based studies into sociolinguistic variation,  
language change, language contact and lexical frequency in BSL: http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/Research/BSL_corpus_project.html 
.

Applicants should have appropriate undergraduate degree and Masters- 
level qualifications, and should have undergone relevant research  
training (for example in linguistics, sociolinguistics or psychology).  
Competence in BSL will be strongly favoured, though training in BSL  
may be offered if required. Data collected as part of the BSL Corpus  
Project will be made available to the students and they may be  
expected to make a significant contribution to the annotation, tagging  
or other manipulation of the data, depending on their expertise.

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Studentship 1 (Sociolinguistic variation and change in BSL):  
University College London.

This studentship will be based at the ESRC Deafness, Cognition and  
Language Research Centre (DCAL) at University College London. The PhD  
project will focus on a topic related to sociolinguistic variation and  
change in BSL.

To apply for studentship 1, please complete the Postgraduate  
Application Form, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate-study/application-admission/ 
  accompanied by a CV and a 500-word outline of your proposed research  
topic.  Please send your application by February 18, 2008 to Adam  
Schembri, DCAL Research Centre, University College London, 49 Gordon  
Square, London, WC1H 0PD, United Kingdom or by email a.schembri at ucl.ac.uk 
.

For more information about DCAL, please visit the website: www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal 
.

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Studentship 2 (Language contact and BSL): Bangor University

This studentship will be based at the ESRC Centre for Bilingualism at  
Bangor University. The PhD research will link up to the work of the  
corpus-based group at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at  
Bangor (see www.bilingualism.ac.uk) and will investigate the outcomes  
of language contact between BSL and English. This could include the  
use of mouthing and fingerspelling as well as code-switching between  
signing and speaking.

To apply for studentship 2, candidates should request a place on the  
PhD in Bilingualism in the School of Linguistics and English Language  
by sending a CV and a cover letter to the Administrator, ESRC Centre  
for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice, Bangor  
University, College Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, United Kingdom or  
by email to Mrs. Ruth Ab Ieuan, r.a.ieuan at bangor.ac.uk, to arrive by  
18 February 2008.

For more information about new ESRC Centre for Bilingualism at Bangor  
University, please visit the website: www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk.

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Who may apply?

EU/UK citizens who have been resident in the UK for three years are  
eligible to receive the full grant (i.e., the fees and the bursary).  
Other EU nationals are eligible to receive the fee element only.

Informal enquiries for either studentship 1 or 2 can be made to the  
BSL Corpus Project director Adam Schembri: a.schembri at ucl.ac.uk.


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Adam C Schembri, PhD
Project Director, British Sign Language Corpus Project
Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre
University College London
49 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org



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