Call for
Applications: 2012 IMPRS for Language Sciences PhD Fellowships
Applications: 2012 IMPRS for Language Sciences PhD Fellowships
The International Max
Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is a joint initiative of
the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and two research institutes
based at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour and the Centre for Language Studies. The research
school offers an unrivalled training and research environment in the language
sciences, allowing interdisciplinary work of the highest standard.
Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is a joint initiative of
the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and two research institutes
based at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour and the Centre for Language Studies. The research
school offers an unrivalled training and research environment in the language
sciences, allowing interdisciplinary work of the highest standard.
The IMPRS for Language Sciences is now advertising three doctoral fellowships
in any field contributing to the language sciences, for example, linguistics,
psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience of language, or language and genetics.
The fellowships are, in the normal case, three years in length. Fellowship
recipients will receive a monthly salary sufficient to cover living costs in
Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Applicants must have a Masters degree (or expect to complete the degree before
September 2012) in a relevant field. The working language of the research
school is English.
Applications must be prepared according to the following guidelines or will not
be considered. Your application must be emailed as one PDF document that
includes the following information:
Curriculum vitae. Include:
- Relevant work and educational
background. - Details about your completed or
expected Masters degree, including supervisors, date of completion, title
of thesis and a brief description of your topic, and any grades you
received for relevant coursework (no official transcript required). - Details about your technical
skillset and proficiency. For example, this may include programming,
statistics, mathematical knowledge, experimental design/methods,
neuroimaging, practical phonetics, corpus methods, fieldwork, etc.
Research proposal. No more than one page. Include:
- Your proposed research question
(one sentence) and title (no longer than 10 words). - A sketch of your proposed PhD
research project that gives a basic overview of your proposed research and
the methods you would hope to employ. Note, the details of the final
research project would be decided upon in consultation with supervisors if
a fellowship were awarded—here we would like to see how well you can frame
a research question and test a hypothesis. - Names of potential supervisors
from any of the three IMPRS partner institutes. You can find out about
researchers’ work from the partner institute websites (see below for
links). You do not need to contact potential supervisors at this time.
Personal statement. No more than half a page.
- The IMPRS community is an active
one, where our students take part in enrichment and training, and help to
organise activities for the research school. If you were awarded a
fellowship (a) whom would you like to invite as a guest speaker? (b) what
professional development training would be most useful for you? and (c)
what activities would you propose?
References. Provide:
- Names, titles and email contact
details of two academic referees. We will only contact them if you are
shortlisted for an interview.
Proof of English-language proficiency if not a native English speaker.
Provide:
- Electronic copy/scan of TOEFL/Cambridge/IELTS
certificate or equivalent. This may be submitted after the main
application deadline if necessary.
The final day for
applications is Thursday, 5 January 2012. Applications received after this date will not be
considered.
applications is Thursday, 5 January 2012. Applications received after this date will not be
considered.
Send your application by email (marked “IMPRS application”) to imprs@mpi.nl.
All queries may also be sent to this address. In your email, please specify how
you heard about the IMPRS for Language Sciences.
Interviews with shortlisted candidates will be held in mid-February 2012. Start
dates for the positions will be 3 September 2012.
For more information about the IMPRS for Language Sciences, visit the research
school’s website:
www.mpi.nl/education/imprs-for-language-sciences
For more information about research at the IMPRS for Language Science’s partner
institutes, visit their websites:
