UKRI Guarantee Doctoral Network Studentship (2x available)

Contract type: Fixed-term for 3 years

Salary: The studentship provides:

• A salary of £47,573 per annum for 3 years, which includes a mobility allowance of £5,335, a living allowance of £37,836 and, if applicable, a family allowance of £4,402
• PhD tuition fees will be paid in full by CASCADE

Summary: We are recruiting for two PhD studentships in the Digital Humanities Institute, as part of the new CASCADE Doctoral Network funded by the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The network aims to train early-stage researchers to develop and apply innovative methodologies for Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE), i.e. to identify, analyse and interrogate how meaning is expressed in language in diverse contexts, with a shared focus on the impact of time (diachronic text analytics). Researchers in the network will encounter different theories of, and approaches to meaning (structuralist, relational, distributional, cognitive, encyclopaedic, social) and learn how these affect the criteria for judging success in text analysis.

MSCA Doctoral Networks are research and training programmes with the goal of training highly skilled doctoral candidates, stimulating their creativity, enhancing their innovation capacities and boosting their employability in the long term. For CASCADE this means responding to a skills deficit in the academic, public and commercial sectors: the need for people able to retrieve, critically evaluate and make better use of the large volumes of textual data that characterise our contemporary information society (the ‘data deluge’).

The two UKRI Guarantee Doctoral Network Studentships being recruited for by the Digital Humanities Institute are: PhD1: Computer-assisted exploration of lexicalisation through time and PhD2: Automating the analysis of concepts through time. Please refer to the full description for further information about each project.

Each studentship includes living allowance, mobility allowance, and tuition fees. Some applicants may also be eligible for a family allowance.

The Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) is the UK’s leading research institute for digital humanities, with a national and international reputation of nearly 30 years. It hosts and delivers a large portfolio of UKRI funded projects, and currently delivers postgraduate programmes to a large and diverse student cohort. See www.dhi.ac.uk  and www.sheffield.ac.uk/dhi

The University of Sheffield is one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

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This post is full time and fixed-term for three years with a closing date for applications of 29th March 2024.