Funding Opportunities

Funding opportunities for Linguistics postgraduate research at the University of Sheffield

Applicants to Master's and doctoral degree programmes in Linguistics at the University of Sheffield are invited to apply for university studentships and for AHRC funding. Linguistics is represented by research scholars across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities: in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, in the School of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in Philosophy. Linguists working in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities conduct research that embraces both synchronic and diachronic approaches to the study of language, involving both formal and functional frameworks.

Key areas of interest include:

• comparative linguistics
• corpus linguistics
• dialect and place
• early Germanic and Old English
• historical sociolinguistics
• intercultural communication
• language acquisition
• language learning and teaching
• language reform
• language variation and social theory
• standardization and globalization
• structure and history of the English language
• study of talk in interaction
• translation studies (including screen translation)
• history of linguistics

Relevant degree Programmes include:

• MA in Applied Linguistics, which includes options in language pedagogy and learning, as well as a research strand in language acquisition (first and second language (replacing the previous MA in Language Acquisition in 2009-2010)
• MA in English Language and Literature: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• MA in Germanic Studies
• MA in Intercultural Communication
• MA in Language, History and Society
• MA in Multilingual Information Management
• MA in Screen Translation
• MA in Translation Studies

Deadlines

The deadline for university and AHRC applications is 31 March 2009. Details and application forms are downloadable from the website of the University´s Graduate Research Office.