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Philological Society Master's Bursary competition opens

The Philological Society is pleased to offer a limited number of bursaries, worth £12,000 each, for students embarking on a taught postgraduate programme in the UK in the areas of linguistics or philology, in accordance with the society's mission: "to inv

Congratulations to Holly Kennard

Congratulations to Holly Kennard on the award of a John Fell Grant, which will fund a researcher to work together with Holly on intonation analysis of a set of Breton recordings. The researcher post will be advertised soon.

Congratulations to Wolfgang de Melo

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Wolfgang de Melo on the award of a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, beginning in October 2023.

UK participation in CLARIN renewed

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has renewed its commitment to UK participation in the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium, with guaranteed participation until at least the end of 2023.

Sam Wolfe awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Sam Wolfe on the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He will use his prize to investigate factors that encourage the syntax of a language to change over time, or to remain stable.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

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 2022.

Vacancy for Departmental Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics of the University of Oxford is seeking a fixed-term Departmental Lecturer to assume teaching and examining responsibilities for one year in the area of Psycholinguistics, to cover the teaching that had b