PhD Scholarships in Linguistics, Graduate School for the Humanities (2.0 FTE)

Scholarship opportunities

Description of the PhD trajectories:

The successful applicants are committed to conducting independent and original scientific research, to report on this research in international publications and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD dissertation. The PhD students participate in local, national and international training activities, including summer schools and conferences, to maximally develop their potential.

As a member of the Graduate School for the Humanities, a PhD candidate may participate in courses, seminars and summer schools organized by Dutch national graduate school Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalkunde (LOT) or by the Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN).
Linguistic research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen is organized in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), which includes 4 research lines:

• Computational Linguistics
• Discourse and Communication
• Neurolinguistics and Language Development
• Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics.

The proposed PhD research must be closely connected with research currently carried out within one of these research lines. Your intended promotor must be a staff member of CLCG (full professor or associate professor with ius promovendi). You must ask his approval via the form under item 2 below. Please see the website of CLCG for additional information on the institute: http://www.rug.nl/research/clcg

Qualifications

Your qualifications are:

• a Master's degree in linguistics (or related discipline) with an excellent academic record (GPA: min. 8/10; MA thesis: min. 8/10). A Research Master (or other two-year Master programme is preferred).
• proven research abilities and affinity with the research topic
• excellent command of English and good academic writing skills.

Organisation

Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has established an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative university offering high-quality teaching and research. Its 36,000 students are encouraged to develop their own individual talents through challenging study and career paths. The University of Groningen is an international center of knowledge: it belongs to the best research universities in Europe and is allied with prestigious partner universities and networks worldwide.

The Graduate School for the Humanities is the home for all PhD candidates of the Faculty of Arts (circa 200), and is committed to creating and maintaining excellent conditions for PhD research in all fields of the humanities. In addition to organizing local courses, the GSH works closely with 16 national research schools which offer regular courses and seminars by national and international top researchers.

Conditions

The PhD scholarship programme:

Information about the legal and financial framework of the PhD scholarship programme can be found here: https://www.rug.nl/(...)holarship-programme/

Please study the conditions carefully before applying.

You will participate in the Faculty’s GSH training programme for PhD students (https://www.rug.nl/(...)adschool-humanities/ ). Part of the training consists in following the Career Perspectives curriculum, which aims to prepare students for their (academic or non-academic) careers after the PhD trajectory. You are also strongly encouraged to expand your skill set by following the faculty-funded Start-to-Teach programme as part of your PhD training. (see here: https://www.rug.nl/(...)lopment-as-a-teacher )

Application

Submission procedure:

Please send your entire application (in English) as a single PDF-file before the deadline of Sunday 8 May, 11:59 pm, 2022 Dutch local time (CET) at the latest, by means of the application form (click on 'Apply' below on the advertisement on the university website).

Please upload your entire application as "letter of motivation attachment" (via ‘fill form manually’), and follow the exact order below, when uploading your documents into a single PDF file.

Your PDF submission should follow this format: https://rug.nl/(...)ation-form-2022.docx
and contain the following parts:

1. A cover letter introducing yourself, describing your motivation to conduct scientific research, and locating your research within one of the research lines
2. A full CV demonstrating academic excellence, including publications and presentations (if applicable), and a copy of the data page of your passport
3. The signed approval of the intended promotor via this form: https://www.rug.nl/(...)ntended-promotor.pdf
4. A certified copy or scan of your MA diploma (or equivalent) and academic record including a list of grades and names and contact details of two academic references
5. A research proposal, focusing on the central research question to be addressed and the proposed method of approaching and answering this question (no more than (!) 1000 words, tables and references excluded, and a project title), according to the format of the proposal that you find in the CLCG application format mentioned above.

Start date: 1 September 2022

For questions regarding the submission procedure, please contact Nadja Zadorina, e-mailaddress: [email protected]

Interviews with selected candidates will take place in the first two weeks of June 2022.

The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage: https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/

Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP): https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/sollicitatiecode/ and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

Unsolicited marketing is not appreciated.

Information

For information you can contact:

• Prof. R.M. Esser (questions regarding the Graduate School for the Humanities), [email protected]
• Prof. G.J.M. van Noord (questions regarding the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen), [email protected]

Please do not use the e-mail address(es) above for applications.

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