PhD in Psycholinguistics

Join an interdisciplinary research community with a wide range of interests that converge on the cognitive dimensions of language ability and use. Your research You'll design, conduct and write up an independent research project. Projects may investigate topics within language acquisition, language and cognition, language comprehension and language production. Your research will be supported by specialist facilities available across the departments of Language and Linguistic Science, Psychology and Education. The psycholinguistics community at York uses methods including: eyetracking and pupilometry EEG and psychophysiology behavioural experiments polysomnography (sleep tracking) focus group monitoring technology You will also benefit from the Psycholinguistics at York community, including informal work-in-progress discussions, talks by invited speakers and an annual presentation day. The culmination of your PhD will include a dissertation and a viva voce exam. Your dissertation may be in monograph format of 60-80,000 words in length, or by articles, where you will produce at least three works of publishable quality. Your work will be assessed by internal and external examiners during a viva voce examination, who will feed back on your work and may require corrections.

Our research degrees will equip you with the advanced technical skills needed to make a meaningful contribution to the field of linguistics. You'll gain key skills including use of specialist software, data management and data analysis.

Our dedicated careers team offer specific support including a programme of professional researcher development and careers workshops and 1:1 career support sessions. They will help you to build up your employability portfolio and to engage in activities that will build up your skills and experience within and outside your research work.

Career opportunities

• academia
• communications consultancy
• voice recognition and natural language processing software development
• artificial intelligence
• speech and language therapy
• language teaching
• market research