One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women’s economic and social empowerment in that nation. Adobe PDF IconDownload the flier (292 KB)The goal of the program is twofold: to advance the scholarly careers of women social scientists from the developing world, and to support research that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing world and that proposes practical solutions for promoting women’s economic and social empowerment.

In addition to a $4,500/month stipend and housing and office space on the SAR campus, the Campbell Fellow receives travel, shipping, and library resource funds; health insurance; and the support of a mentoring committee of established scholar-practitioners.

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Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP) is now accepting applications for admission to the 2010 fall semester, and applications are due before 31 March, 2010.

The Taiwan International Graduate Program is a Ph.D. program, started in 2002, by Academia Sinica, the foremost research institution of Taiwan. In cooperation with top universities in Taiwan, Academia Sinica offers advanced, inter-disciplinary Ph.D. Programs, in nine fields that span the natural and physical sciences, as well as computational linguistics. TIGP students will learn in all-English teaching and research environments, and enjoy access to world-class faculty and state-of-the-art research facilities at Academia Sinica and partner universities. All applicants who are admitted to TIGP will receive a fellowship from Academia Sinica. Stipend levels are about USD 11,000 per year, and will be awarded for the first three years.

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The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington would like to announce the availability of five assistantships for new students admitted for study in our PhD program starting in Fall 2010. These graduate teaching assistantships will have a 9 month stipend of $15,300 and cover tuition for 9 hours of coursework a semester (9 hours is a full-time load).

Our Department has an established doctoral program, with strengths in language documentation, formal linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics), corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition (especially experimental approaches to SLA). Faculty strengths also include Asian, Austronesian, and Native American languages. We are hiring two new faculty this year, one in language documentation and syntax and another in second language acquisition. Facilities include a new Speech Sounds Lab with a soundproof booth and a portable ultrasound. The graduate students in our Department also organize an annual student conference that includes the Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics, which awards a cash prize to the top presentations at the conference. (more…)

Two Marie Curie PhD Scholarships in Semantic Annotation of Corpora and Multimodal Communication at the University of Copenhagen Application deadline March 15, 2010

The Graduate School of the Faculty of Humanities and the Centre for Language Technology, under the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications for two PhD scholarships in semantic annotation of corpora and multimodal communication starting September 1, 2010 for a period of up to three years. The positions involve participation in the EU project CLARA – Common Language Resources and their Applications, which is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network receiving funding from European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme (more…)