Grade de cercetare (MPhil/PhD) în lingvistică

Programul de doctorat în lingvistică este un program de formare riguros, structurat, cu diferite activități și cerințe care au loc pe toată perioada programului.

All students register in year 1 of the programme as MPhil students. The upgrade from MPhil to PhD registration takes place at the end of the first academic session for full-time students (or at the end of the second academic session for part-time students).

All new MPhil/PhD students are provided with a supervisory committee of three members, comprising a main or primary supervisor, and a second and third supervisor. The split in time commitment across the supervisory committee is 60:25:15. In the first year, students are expected to meet their main supervisor on a bi-weekly basis for a period of at least one hour.

The student’s primary supervisor is always a member of the Department in which the student is registered. The second and third supervisors, who act in a supplementary advisory capacity, may be from the same Department, or other Departments/Centres in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures or in Departments/Centres in the other Faculties of the School.

Depending on the nature of the research, joint supervision is sometimes recommended, under the direction of two primary supervisors. In such cases, the student has only one further supervisor on their committee.

Progresul studentului este supravegheat în continuare de către Tutorul departamental de cercetare.

Year 1

În primul an, studenții se pregătesc pentru cercetare urmând seminarul de formare în cercetare (RTS) în Lingvistică convocat de Tutorul Departamental de Cercetare și susținut de formarea generică oferită în cadrul Direcției de Dezvoltare Academică (ADD).

Students may also be encouraged by supervisors to attend additional taught courses relevant to their research and to their training needs. These may include specialist disciplinary, language or regional culture courses or research training in other Departments outside the Faculty.

All MPhil/PhD students are encouraged to attend the talks of the departmental seminar series or those organised by the Centre for Language Pedagogy or the Centre for Translation Studies. In addition, there are special PhD seminars in which advanced PhD students present their work and which are open to staff and students.

Studenții cu normă întreagă din anul 1 (anul 2 pentru studenții cu fracțiune de normă) trebuie să trimită un capitol principal și o propunere de cercetare (de aproximativ 10.000 de cuvinte), incluzând de obicei următoarele elemente:

• Research rationale and context of the proposed research
• Main research questions
• Literature review
• Theoretical and methodological framework and considerations
• Proposed research methods
• Ethical issues (where applicable)
• Outline structure of PhD dissertation
• Schedule of research and writing
• Bibliography

Adjustments to one or more of these sections, including additions or deletions where appropriate, are possible by prior arrangements between the students and lead supervisors.

Procesul de actualizare de la MPhil la statutul de doctorat se bazează pe o evaluare a capitolului de bază și a propunerii de cercetare de către comitetul de cercetare al studentului și pe o prezentare orală de 20-30 de minute, urmată de discuție. Prezentarea orală este oferită personalului departamental, membrilor comisiei de supraveghere și studenților de cercetare. Acesta este urmat de un interviu de 10-15 minute între student și comisie. După finalizarea cu succes a procesului de actualizare, studenții sunt actualizați oficial la doctorat și trec în al doilea an. (Dacă evaluatorii consideră că există deficiențe în capitolul de bază sau propunerea de cercetare, studenților li se va cere să o revizuiască în mod satisfăcător înainte ca trecerea la statutul de doctorat să poată fi confirmată.) În mod normal, studenților nu li se permite să treacă în al doilea an până când procesul de actualizare a fost finalizat.

Year 2

The second year (or part-time equivalent) is normally spent engaged in research. This may be by any combination of fieldwork and research in libraries and the material collection as agreed between the student and the supervisor(s).

Year 3

The third year (or part-time equivalent) is devoted to writing up research for the PhD thesis. During this time, students will normally give a presentation in the PhD seminar series organised by the Departmental Research Tutor, which is open to staff members and other research students. During the third year (or part-time equivalent) students will present draft chapters to their main supervisor for comment, before completing a final draft of the thesis. Once a full draft is complete, the work is assessed by all members of the supervisory committee and the student can either submit the thesis or move on to Continuation Status to be given a further 12 months to complete the thesis and submit for examination.

The thesis must be completed within 48 months from the time of registration (or part-time equivalent).

The thesis – not to exceed 100,000 words in length – is examined by two leading authorities in the field.

Titlurile de doctorat sunt acordate de SOAS de la înregistrarea în 2013 și sunt supuse reglementărilor SOAS .

Graduates of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics leave SOAS not only with linguistic and cultural expertise, but also with skills in written and oral communication, analysis and problem solving.

Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Africa Matters
• Amnesty International
• Arab British Chamber of Commerce
• BBC World Service
• British High Commission
• Council for British Research in the Levant
• Department for International Development
• Edelman
• Embassy of Jordan
• Ernst & Young
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Google
• Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
• Middle East Eye
• Saïd Foundation
• TalkAbout Speech Therapy
• The Black Curriculum
• The Telegraph
• United Nations Development Programme
• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
• Wall Street Journal