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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Queen's University Belfast
Full Time
Dec 2026
3 Year
The study of language is fundamental to the research environment across the School of Arts, English andLanguages, where various linguistic approaches are taken to varieties of English, French, Irish, and more.You’ll be part of a dynamic doctoral research environment and will study alongside students from diverse backgrounds. We supervise students undertaking research in key sub-disciplines of linguistics, including: sociolinguistics; language variation and change; language policy (education, community languages, minoritized languages); place-names; language used in new media, narrative, literature, rhetoric, discourse analysis and translation; and advancing knowledge of languages across the levels of phonetics and phonology, lexicology, morphology-syntax and pragmatics.
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