linguistics | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 2

2011 CASBS-Residential Fellowship Program at Stanford University, USA: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology Humanistic Disciplines, Education, Linguistics and Biological Sciences.

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The Center offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars from this country and abroad. Since 1954, CASBS fellowships have been awarded to scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines. These include the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological sciences.

Many activities offer Fellows significant opportunities to engage with one another (as well as with other accomplished scholars on Stanford campus):

•a seminar series in which Fellows are invited to present their work
•informal work groups that emerge during the year, which give Fellows with broadly overlapping interests a basis for sustained conversation
•public meetings of special projects in residence, which give Fellows a chance to learn more about these projects and to engage with participants on substantive issues of mutual interest
•daily lunches at the Center, which often result in one-on-one meetings between potential collaborators
•special events and recreational activities organized by the Center
•Stanford campus colloquia and seminars provided by the Psychology Department, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Humanities Center, etc.

Scholarship Application Deadline:April 6, 2011

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Teaching Studentships at University of York, UK: Chemistry, Economics, Electronics, History, History of Art, Languages and Linguistics, Law School, Physics

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Teaching Studentships offer a tuition fee waiver (at the home/EU rate) and a stipend of £5000. The studentship covers three years of full time PhD registration and funds the studentship holder for up to 6 months (paid pro rata) of their writing-up year. In addition, the Teaching Studentship includes a defined teaching role and training programme offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience and career development at the same time as carrying out doctoral research. The teaching workload, including training, preparation and marking time is usually expected to be around 50 hours. The actual number of hours depends upon the specific teaching studentship. The eligible department will offer further guidance on the specific expectations of a particular Teaching Studentship.
Eligibility: In order to be eligible you must:

  1. Have applied for and been offered a place on a full time PhD programme in the relevant Department.
  2. Have or expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent prior to commencing the PhD degree.
  3. Applicants whose first language is not English must obtain an IELTS score of 7.0 or above (or equivalent) in the speaking component of the test.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 30 April 2011

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5 PhD Studentships on ReCOS Project in Linguistics, UK

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Applications are invited for five PhD studentships covering the period 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2014, working under the general supervision of Professor Ian Roberts in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (although each student will in fact be assigned a four-member PhD committee). This award has become available as a result of an ERC Advanced Grant “Rethinking Comparative Syntax”. Successful applicants for these awards are expected to begin PhD study on 1 October 2011 and will receive a student stipend sufficient to meet the fees and maintenance requirements.

Applicants should have completed a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Linguistics, with a specialisation in Syntax and expect to attain or have attained a mark of distinction. Demonstrable interest in one or more specific topics in comparative syntactic research over and above what is set out in the research proposal, and/or a good knowledge of some language(s) other than English, as well as excellent writing skills in English, are desirable. Eligible candidates must submit an advanced proposal of research relevant to the “Rethinking Comparative Syntax” project, in particular, in relation to that project, they should indicate which of the five main empirical areas of research described there they would prefer to carry out doctoral work on.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 March 2011

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