Status: Closed
Applications open: 8/07/2022
Applications close: 18/08/2022
About this scholarship
This is a cross- discipline; cross-school project, bringing together academics with complementing expertise in cognitive neuropsychology, neuroscience, and cross-cultural psychology. The team speaks 5 languages across its members.
This PhD project is associated with an Australian Research Council Project (DP190101490) that focuses on understanding the cognitive and linguistic factors influencing speech production in monolingual and bilingual adult speakers, both in the healthy population and in the language-impaired population (e.g., with post-stroke aphasia).
This project offers diverse opportunities to answer the following broad topic questions that could be approached with different methodologies and approaches that span across the expertise of the supervisory team. For example, does learning a second language later in life enhance non-linguistic cognitive skills (such as attention)? What is the influence of similar sounding words across languages on the first or second language spoken? What are the non-linguistic and linguistic effects on the first language when a second language is spoken over a long period of time? What other cross-language influences on speech errors can be observed? These questions can be explored in the healthy as well as in the language-impaired context.
Overall, this research area aims to understand in more detail how language is organised in bi- / multi-lingual speakers and what factors are influencing their language performance. Once the influencing factors are determined, they can serve as a 'testing bed’ for the language-impaired context. There is scope for working with people with aphasia (language-impairment) for part of the PhD project, should the candidate bring a background in speech pathology, clinical linguistics, and/or patho-linguistics.
An Internship opportunity may also be available with this project.
- Future Students
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Higher Degree by Research
- Australian Citizen
- Australian Permanent Resident
- New Zealand Citizen
- Permanent Humanitarian Visa
- Merit Based
The annual scholarship package (stipend and tuition fees) is approx. $60,000 - $70,000 p.a.
Successful HDR applicants for admission will receive a 100% fee offset for up to 4 years, stipend scholarships, valued at $28,854 p.a. for up to a maximum of 3.5 years, are determined via a competitive selection process. Applicants will be notified of the scholarship outcome in November 2022.
For detailed information, visit: Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarships | Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Scholarship Details
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All applicable HDR courses
Essential Criteria: Excellent academic record including Honours or Masters of Research Degree in Psychology, (Psycho-/ Patho-)Linguistics, Speech Pathology, Cognitive Science and/or related field; excellent spoken and written English; theoretical knowledge of at least one other language than English.
Desirable Criteria: Understanding of theories of bilingual language and cognitive processing; advanced statistical skills (e.g., experience with R and linear mixed effect modelling; experience in computational language modelling; proficiency in more than one language).
Application process
If this project excites you, and your research skills and experience are a good fit for this specific project, you should contact the Project Lead (listed below in the enquires section) via the Expression of Interest (EOI) form. ahead of the closing date.
Enrolment Requirements
Eligible to enrol in a Higher Degree by Research Course at Curtin University by March 2023
Enquiries
To enquire about this project opportunity that includes a scholarship application, contact the Project lead, Dr Britta Biedermann via the EOI form above.
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