PhD research studentships in the Surrey Morphology Group

Surrey Morphology Group (SMG) is pleased to announce an open competition to apply for a fully funded 3-year postgraduate research studentship (fees and subsistence at Research Council rates) to undertake PhD research in the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey.

Important: The studentships will start in October 2014. Due to funding restrictions, full studentships are only available to Home students (i.e. students from the UK) and (other) EU students who have been resident in the UK for 3 years on 30 September 2014. EU students who have not been resident in the UK for the 3 years preceding the award will be entitled to a Fees Only award. Part-time studentships may be considered under certain circumstances.

Both Home and EU students have to satisfy the standard AHRC eligibility criteria. See Annex A of the AHRC Postgraduate Funding Guide for further details:

www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Student-Funding-Guide.pdf

Pre-application process for PhD research in SMG

To be considered for a studentship, the topic of the proposed research should be within the area of morphology or the interfaces between morphology and other components of grammar.

In the first instance, we invite potential applicants to submit a brief proposal outlining their proposed research project. The document should outline the key research questions for the project, discuss the methodology to be used and explain why this topic is of interest to the field.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate how their proposed research fits in with research currently undertaken within the group. Details of our ongoing projects, past research and research outcomes are available from the SMG homepage:

www.surrey.ac.uk/smg

The proposal should be no longer than 2 pages in length, including key references.

Enquiries and proposals should be sent by email to Dr. Oliver Bond (o.bond@surrey.ac.uk).

The deadline for pre-application submission is Friday 6^th December 2013. We will notify you of the outcome by Friday 20^th December.

Note that the application process will have two further stages:

(1) Candidates whose proposals are most highly rated will be invited to submit a full application to the PhD programme by 1 February 2014. 

(2) Candidates will also need to complete a separate studentship application due by 19 February 2014. 

Further details will be made available to potential candidates after the pre-application process.

 Some general information about the studentships is available here:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHJ179/faculty-studentships-in-english-and-languages/