ERC Synergy Nilomorph PhD Scholarship: Describing West Nilotic Languages

About the project

There are several scholarship programmes open to international students.

Ailie Donald Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded for postgraduate Masters study in English and/or Historical Linguistics, within the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.

Drever Trust MSc Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded for postgraduate Masters study in Psychological Research, within the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Awards

The College Research Student Awards scheme is designed to attract high quality students applying for PhD research. As a student with us you will work with some of the most influential academics in your chosen field and learn about the very latest developments in your subject. Those chosen exemplify the high standards the University of Edinburgh sets for its research students and the investment that we make in their potential.

ERC PhD studentship: The Ethics and Philosophy of Science of Machine Learning

This is a four-year ERC funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026).

James Forrester PhD Scholarship in Moral Philosophy

This scholarship has been created through the generous bequest of James Forrester to the Philosophy Department of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. The scholarship aims to nurture excellence in moral philosophy by supporting a PhD in Philosophy at Edinburgh. The successful applicant will come to Edinburgh to work on a PhD in moral philosophy, broadly construed to include normative and value theory more generally.

ERC Synergy Nilomorph PhD Scholarship: Describing West Nilotic Languages

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is inviting applications for three postgraduate studentships that offer four years of funding and extensive associated resources.

Leverhulme Trust PhD studentship in Input and Uptake in Bilingualism and Language Disorders

This three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026) will focus on the interaction between input and uptake in primary school-aged Mandarin-speaking monolingual and heritage bilingual children with and without DLD in China and in the UK. The PhD student will be responsible for developing and administering structural priming experiments in Mandarin, as well as for recruiting and testing neurotypical children and children with DLD in the UK and in China, analysing and writing up results. The successful PhD candidate will join a vibrant academic PhD community in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS). Both Linguistics and Psychology, part of PPLS, were ranked 3rd for research excellence according to the latest Research Exercise Framework (REF2021). The applicant will have access to the School’s state-of-the-art research labs, recording studios, and technical support for programming and statistical analysis, as well as to a large research community of developmental linguists and psychologists.

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This article was published on Monday 29 July 2024

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