[ecrea] job announcement: PhD Research Studentship "Analysis of academic discourse in the SSH"

Call for applications
PhD Research Studentship / Scholarship "Analysis of academic discourse in the SSH"
Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Application deadline: 20 June 2013
Start date: October 2013 (subject to negotiation)

The DISCONEX research group "The Discursive Construction of Academic Excellence. Classifying Academic Researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities", led by Professor Johannes Angermuller (Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick) is looking for candidates for a funded PhD position at the crossroads of language and society. Against a background in poststructuralist and constructivist social theory, DISCONEX studies the cultures, practices and knowledges of academic researchers in the social sciences and humanities. By having recourse to qualitative methods, the group will empirically investigate the social uses of academic publications in the social sciences and humanities (for more detailshttp://www.johannes-angermuller.net/DISCONEX, another two stipends will be available from the French partner institution, CEMS/EHESS). The PhD projects will be in the domain of the So
cial Sciences and Humanities Studies and should focus on the social dynamics of scientific
  communities in two interdisciplinary fields (for example in letters/linguistics/philosophy and in sociology/anthropology/media and culture studies, in English and possibly in French or German).

Awards available:  1 award available

Funding Details:
The scholarship will pay an annual stipend (beginning at £13,726). Funding may be available for Home/EU fees, subject to eligibility.

Length of Award: 3 years (PhD)

Eligibility: Open to Home/EU and Overseas applicants.

Conditions of application
Candidates should have a minimum first or upper second class honours degree (or equivalent), obtained by September 2013 in discourse analysis, qualitative social research or Science and Technology Studies.
PhD project on one of the domains of the DISCONEX project.

Required competencies
Strong research orientation, international experience and interest in collaborative research.
Contribution to project-related tasks such as data collection (interviews, documents, participant observation etc.) and analysis (written and oral discourse), workshops, conferences, publication of results.
Participation in the activities of the DiscourseNet network (http://www.discourseanalysis.net)
Excellent command of English, preferably of German and French as well

Required documents
Motivation letter laying out the reasons for applying to the DISCONEX group
Research project (5 pages)
Curriculum vitae
Two reference letters may be requested from academic teachers
Copies of diplomas and grades
The application documents are sent in a single pdf file by mail to Ronny Scholz.

Travel costs for the interview cannot be reclaimed.

Network: ERC DISCONEX research group
Contact person: Ronny Scholz (DISCONEX project manager)
Email:(disconex /at/ live.warwick.ac.uk)


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