BSL Corpus Project: 1+3 PhD studentship

[Adam Schembri]

NEW 1+3 PHD STUDENTSHIP (STARTING IN 2008): BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE  
CORPUS PROJECT (based either at the DCAL Research Centre at University  
College London or the ESRC Centre for Bilingualism at Bangor  
University):

A 4 year PhD studentship linked to the British Sign Language (BSL)  
Corpus Project is now available. The studentship is a 1+3 award (1  
year Master’s degree programme and 3-year PhD). The funding will cover  
UK/EU student fees and a standard bursary (£14,300 per year). The  
studentship may be based either at University College London or at  
Bangor University (see options 1 or 2 below).

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.bslcorpusproject.org .

Applicants should have appropriate undergraduate degree  
qualifications, and should have undergone relevant research training  
(for example in linguistics, sociolinguistics or psychology).  
Competence in BSL is a strong advantage, though training in BSL will  
be offered if required. Data collected as part of the BSL Corpus  
Project will be available, and the student is expected to make a  
significant contribution to the annotation, tagging or other  
manipulation of the data, depending on expertise.






Option 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  
student will first complete the 1 year interdisciplinary MRes in  
Speech, Language and Cognition programme. The 3 year 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 18 June 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 
.



Option 2 (Language contact and BSL): Bangor University

This studentship will be based at the ESRC Centre for Bilingualism at  
Bangor University. The student will first complete the 1 year MA in  
Billingualism programme. The 3 year 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 June 2008.



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





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.

--
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
Tel (voice): +44 (0)20 7679 8680
http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org




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