PhD Studentship: Linguistics and Bilingualism: Fully funded PhD Scholarship in the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Linguistics and Bilingualism

Prospective students are invited to propose a doctoral research project in the language-related areas of expertise of staff in Applied Linguistics and Welsh. Staff expertise can be found: 

• https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/humanities-and-socialsciences/culture-communication-staff/english-language-tesol-applied-linguistics-staff/
• https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/humanities-and-socialsciences/culture-communication-staff/welsh-staff/ 

Broadly, the research areas include:

• second language acquisition
• bilingualism/multilingualism
• and/or the structure, meaning and use of language in linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics, discourse analysis, language technology and education. 

Supervision can also be held jointly with colleagues in Modern Languages, Psychology and Education.

Students will have access to lab facilities including two eye-trackers (EyeLink Portable Duo) and specialist software including subscriptions to Gorilla.sc and Qualtrics. Students will also become members of the Language Research Centre – an interdisciplinary research centre encompassing language related research across the university.

For general queries about the studentship, please contact the Pathway Link for Linguistics and Bilingualism, Dr Xuehong (Stella) He, xuehong.he@swansea.ac.uk 

Funding 

The studentship funded by the ESRC covers tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend in line with UKRI minimum rates (currently £21,805 for 2026/27).

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