Fully Funded Phd Scholarships in the Field Phonetics Science at Macquarie University In Australia

Macquarie University invites domestic and international candidates to PhD scholarships. It is offering an MRes Year 2+ PhD bundle or PhD scholarship in Phonetics/Speech Science through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project “Multicultural Australian English: The new voice of Sydney”. Outcomes are expected to inform sociophonetic theories of variation, ethnicity, and identity, and provide a crucial framework for supporting sociocultural cohesion.

If you get this scholarship, you will receive:

•  Tuition Fee Offset.
•  Living Allowance. 
• Full-time stipend rate of $28,597 per annum (in 2021 tax-exempt for up to 4 years).

You must have:

1. To be one of the domestic or international candidates to undertake a direct entry PhD or MRes Year 2 (1 year) + PhD (3 years) program.
2. A record of excellent academic performance.
3. A disciplinary background in phonetics or sociophonetics. 
4. Preferably additional relevant research experience and/or peer-reviewed research activity in line with the University’s scholarship rating guidelines. 
5. The specific topic of the candidate's research project is negotiable. Potential projects may include:

• acoustic and/or articulatory examination of select phonetic features of Australian English used by speakers from a range of heritage language backgrounds such as Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, German, Vietnamese, English.
• analysis of the relationship between speech production and the level and type of speaker engagement with the local community.
• ethnopoetics analysis of social microcultures within a school setting.
• examination of sound change through a comparison between select acoustic data from the Multicultural Australian English project and archival Australian English data.
• examination of sound change through agent-based modeling.

About Macquarie University: 

Established in 1964, Macquarie University began as a bold experiment in higher education. Built to break from traditions: to be distinctive, progressive, and to be transformational. Today its pioneering history continues to be a source of inspiration as it celebrates its place among the best and brightest minds. Moreover recognized internationally, Macquarie University is consistently ranked in the top two percent of universities in the world* and within the top 10 in Australia.

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