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Scholarship / Bourses

15 PhD students (salary 65% E13 – scientist) at the International Graduate School Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany)

The International Graduate School Molecular Interactions of Pathogens with Biotic and Abiotic Surfaces – GRK1409 – (funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) offers 15 PhD positions (65% E13) and 3 MD fellowships in the Life Sciences. The third class will start on October 1st, 2012 (5 PhD positions) resp. January 1st, 2013 (10 PhD positions). Funding […]

8 Scholarships in the Research Doctorate Programme in Political Theory (Italy)

Rectoral Decree No. 84 of 17 April 2012 on a competition, by way of comparative evaluation based on qualifications, for 8 places in the Research Doctorate Programme in Political Theory   THE RECTOR  –          Having regard to the Charter of LUISS Guido Carli. –          Having regard to article 4 of Law No. 210 of 3 July […]

PhD Studentship in Politics at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom)

 The Department of Politics and International Relations and the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester invites applications for one 3-years PhD studentship in the area of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, with a start date of 1 October 2012. The studentship is fully funded by the College of Social Sciences and both departments, […]

PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics (Germany)

                                    The « Language Acquisition » Junior Research Group Georg-Elias-Müller Institut für Psychologie Georg-August University Göttingen invites applications for either One Post-doctoral position (100% TV-L 13: 39,8 hours/week) or  Two PhD positions (50% TV-L 13: 19,9 hours/week)      The “Language […]

PhD Scholarships at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: English; Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Two 3-year PhD positions are available in Peter Hagoort’s Neurobiology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The positions offer access to numerous behavioral and EEG laboratories, as well as eye-tracking, MEG, fMRI and TMS facilities. The language research environment in Nijmegen is vibrant with […]

PhD or Postdoc Fellowships at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

At the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology a half time position for a researcher at the PhD or PostDoc level (pay scale EGr. 13TV-L, 50%) is available for 3 years beginning in June 2012 or later. The position is part of the project « The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, […]

5 PhD Studentships (fees and support) at Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Queen Margaret University is making funds available to support five PhD students undertaking research in our key research themes. The five studentships are to be allocated as follows: Speech and Hearing Sciences (two studentships) Media, Communication and Culture (two studentships) Psychology (one studentship) Funding will be allocated through one, university-wide competition. Full details are below: […]

6 PhD fellowships in « Ecological interactions at surfaces and interfaces » (Jena- Germany)

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) ´The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques´ in Jena, Germany, invites applications for 6 PhD fellowships beginning in January 2013. Many key ecological interactions between plants, herbivores, bacteria and fungi occur at different surfaces. These form the boundaries between organisms and their aerial, aquatic, or […]

5 Doctoral Stipends in Social Sciences and Humanities- University of Passau (Germany)

The DFG Research Training Group 1681 ´Privacy. Forms, Functions, Transformations´ is embedded in the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Law at the University of Passau. The Research Training Group is currently offering 5 Doctoral Stipends (Euro 1,200.00 per month) beginning in August 2012 for an initial two-year period of support with a renewal […]

9 PhD Positions in Linguistics: International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB)

The Erasmus Mundus PhD Program ´International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain´ (IDEALAB) offers an outstanding interdisciplinary 3-year doctoral training to its candidates to study structure, processing and foundations of human language integrating interdisciplinary approaches. For this purpose, four European universities and one non-European university provide an intellectual environment for original and independent […]

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