Our students’ interests are wide-ranging and we welcome applications from capable candidates who want to investigate topics across language and communication. The PhD programme empowers candidates both to produce innovative research and to develop themselves as independent and intellectually creative scholars. The PhD in Language and Communication is a three-year (FT), 5-year (PT) degree which offers candidates the opportunity to research a topic that interests and excites them and falls within the expertise of internationally renowned staff working at the forefront of their disciplines in the Centre for Language and Communication Research, a research group within the School of English Communication and Philosophy. Programme aims The research programme offers knowledge and expertise to take you on to a role in higher education, or employment requiring high-level skills in research or advanced subject knowledge The programme recruits a diverse range of HomeEU and international students who want to engage in a research environment characterised by world-leading research expertise in social, applied and interactional areas of human communication, language and linguistics Upon successful completion of the PhD, you will have produced a written thesis which will contribute to knowledge and understanding in the field.

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