PhD Studentships, University of Edinburgh

The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2013. Approximately 8 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering maintenance at the research council rate of around GBP 13500 per year, plus tuition fees. Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science, computer science, or a related discipline.

For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a selection of potential PhD topics, please consult the ILCC website at http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/. Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/ Please direct further inquiries to Henry Thompson ht at inf.ed.ac.uk, the ILCC PhD admissions coordinator.

In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all supporting documents) need to be received by December 14, 2012.