PPL Graduate Alvin Tan wins Linguistics Association of Great Britain Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics prize The Faculty is proud to announce that former Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics student Alvin Tan, who graduated in 2020,
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Janet Pierrehumbert has been selected to receive the 2020 Medal for Scientific Achievement from ISCA (the International Speech Communication Association).
We are delighted to announce that Professor Andreas Willi has been elected a Fellow of The British Academy. Professor Willi has been Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology since 2005.
The Faculty of Linguistics at Oxford University invites Expressions of Interest from researchers who wish to apply to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship scheme 2020 (European Fellowships).
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 Postdoc
The Oxford University VIRTUAL Open Day takes place on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 July 2020. Due to COVID-19, all events will be online.
Professor David Willis joins us as the Jesus Chair of Celtic The Faculty would like to warmly welcome Professor David Willis who is joining the University as the Jesus Chair of Celtic.

The Faculty is delighted that Professor Aditi Lahiri has been awarded a CBE in the New Year 2020 Honours List. The honour is in recognition of her services to the study of Linguistics.
Applications open for AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award in the Linguistics Faculty, in partnership with BT plc:
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The Faculty of Linguistics congratulates Dr John Lowe for his outstanding success in winning the prestigious ERC Starter Grant 2019: ERC Starter Grant 2019.
Combined University and College salary £47,263 — £63,463 p.a.
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics welcomes interest from suitably qualified applicants in this year's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, for awards to be taken up in September or October 2020.
Professor Janet Pierrehumbert elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics warmly congratulates Professor Janet Pierrehumbert on her election to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
Congratulations to Professor Andreas Willi who has been awarded the Humboldt-Forschungs prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. It is one of the most prestigious prizes in Germany and worth €60,000.

The Philological Society, Britain's oldest learned society promoting and engaging with linguistics, is hosting an Early Career Researcher Forum at Wolfson College, Oxford, on 8 & 9 March 2019. The event is being organised by Dr Robin Meyer and Prof.
Applications are invited for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships from suitably qualified researchers wishing to base their work in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.
As in the previous year, the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 has ranked Oxford top in its subject table for Linguistics; also top-ranked are Philosophy and Psychology, which are joined up with Linguistics in our PPL degree.
The Faculty of Linguistics congratulates its Head of Administration and Finance, Dan Holloway, for having been shortlisted for this year's Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards, in the Individual Champion or Role Model category.

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is delighted to announce that Prof.
Oxford's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics is looking to recruit a full-time Departmental Lecturer in Semantics from 1 October 2018 for a fixed-term period of 1 year.