Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Competition

Eligibility: UK and EU students intending to take a PhD degree (+3) or an MA followed by a PhD (1+3) in an area related to the Social Sciences (including some subfield of linguistics).

Award: Tuition fees and maintenance (£13,590 in 2012-13) for UK residents; fees only for EU residents.

Apply for a place on the PhD programme by Thursday 17 January 2013.

Apply for the ESRC award by Monday 4 February 2013.

The University of Manchester is a member of the ESRC's North West Doctoral Training College (DTC), which receives the largest number of ESRC PhD studentships in England. For further information, please see

http://www.nwdtc.ac.uk/prospective.html

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Competition

Eligibility: UK and EU students intending to take a PhD degree (3 years)

Award: Tuition fees and a maintenance stipend (£13,590 in 2012-13) for UK students; tuition fees for EU students.

Apply for a place on the PhD programme by Friday 1 February 2013.

Apply for the AHRC award by Friday 1 March 2013.

For further information, please see http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=14888

Additional information about the application process for these awards can be found under http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/fees/postgraduate-research-funding/. In addition to the above awards, the School offers a number of Graduate Scholarships and fee bursaries. Full details, once confirmed, will be be made available under this link.

The Department of Linguistics and English Language is an international centre for Linguistics and English Language, with 20 full-time members of staff and approximately 25 Postgraduate Research students. Its staff members, many of whom are internationally renowned scholars in their specialisms, represent a unique breadth of subject areas and theoretical approaches. Each of them also has a special interest in particular languages and language families. In their research, members of the department combine the advancement of theoretical approaches with a strong concern for their empirical and methodological foundations. Postgraduate Research students in Linguistics and English Language are part of the diverse and dynamic postgraduate community in the new Graduate School of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/graduateschool/).

For more information about the research interests of individual members of staff and current postgraduate students, please visit http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/lel/. Please note that we cannot normally supervise applications focusing mostly on Language Teaching and Learning.

For informal inquiries about the academic side of the application process, please contact the Postgraduate (Research) Programme director, Prof Eva Schultze-Berndt, at Eva.Schultze-Berndt at manchester.ac.uk.

For questions about the administrative side of the application process, please visit http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/apply/

or contact Ms Rachel Corbishley at Phdsalc at manchester.ac.uk.