The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral and completing graduate scholars who wish to apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme for entry in 2026.
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The Philological Society’s Robins Prize is once again an all-Oxford success story in 2025, with a current and a former LPP DPhil student sharing the award.
Oxford’s Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (LPP) is looking forward to an “extreme makeover” in its physical surroundings, as it prepares to move into the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in September 2025.
In May 2025 the UK formally joined the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium as a full member.
Professor Devyani Sharma has been appointed to the Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, a post endowed by News UK. She will take up this post on October 1st 2025.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics invites Expressions of Interest from researchers who wish to apply to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, together with collaborating colleges, is looking to fill THREE fixed-term positions in Linguistics, all to start on October 1, 2025.
Professor Aditi Lahiri presented ‘The Structure of sounds in mental representations – old manuscripts, new brains’ in the Speakers Corner at the ’40 Years of the Leibniz Prizes’ event that took place on 19th March 2025 in Berlin.
Professor Aditi Lahiri presented ‘The Structure of sounds in mental representations – old manuscripts, new brains’ in the Speakers Corner at the ’40 Years of the Leibniz Prizes’ event that took place on 19th March 2025 in Berlin.
In ‘Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change’, published in Diachronica, Hudson, Wei and Coleman present some applications of speech morphing to model potential reconstructions of historical sound changes.
Do take a look at the detailed dive into this article on work being done by the Enggano project based in the Linguistics Faculty over on the Division's website.
UKRI has launched a call for applications for 2-year early career fellowships exploring the impact of AI on research, aimed at building understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape and the day-to-day work of researche
We are delighted that the following projects have secured John Fell Funding Methodologies for the study of glottalic consonants Dr Maida Percival and Professor Elinor Payne's project will develop innovative methodologies, combining the instrumental tools
Applications are now open for the University’s 2025 UNIQ+ postgraduate research internships.
The British Academy International Fellowship scheme will launch later this month, on Thursday 23 January 2025. As this scheme is highly competitive, there will be an initial Faculty selection process.
The programme helps UK state school students with good GCSE grades or equivalent make a more successful application to Oxford, with a sustained contact programme and in-person residential.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Kellogg College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Phonetics.
The Faculty of Linguistics in Oxford will be the main coordinating institution in a new collaborative venture, the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Digital Resources for the Languages in Ireland and Britain, DR-LIB for short.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics is thrilled to announce that Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Comparative Philology Seminar at Oxford, an afternoon celebration will take place on Tuesday 3rd December 2024 in the Sultan Nazrin Shah Auditorium at Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB. Programme: 2.