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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Waterloo Campus
Full Time
Feb 2027
3 Year
The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC) welcomes applications for the MPhil/PhD in Language, Discourse & Communication. The MPhil/PhD programme offers you the chance to undertake a piece of research that is worthy of publication and which makes an original contribution to your field of study. The Centre is housed in the School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS) at King’s College London and is a globally influential centre for language research with exceptional strengths in discourse studies and sociolinguistics. The over-arching research theme in the Centre is ‘Identities and Mobilities’, which reflects its core strength in research on (multingual) identities in a variety of everyday, institutional and mediated contexts. The MPhil/PhD in Language, Discourse & Communication aims to foster your scholarly and career interests and to prepare you for the world of academic research. The Centre offers extensive research training and supervision on a range of (socio)linguistic methods and frameworks, including: cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies, discourse & sociolinguistic approaches to social media communication, identities-in-interaction, narrative analysis and small stories research. We are looking for outstanding candidates to join a supportive and dynamic research community.
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