Languages, Literature & Culture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Dundee

Being a non-native speaker in a dynamic world: Language-related policy and its effects on people's cognition, wellbeing and other aspects of their lives

Supervisors: Dr Y Kamide, Dr D. Stjepanovic

PLEASE NOTE. This project is for self-funded or externally sponsored students only. It is quite common that a country or community has only one official language, or one overwhelmingly dominant official language amongst a few. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

Writing trans and non-binary lives in the 20th and 21st centuries: autobiography, autofiction, autotheory

This research project aims to explore the ways in which trans and non-binary people have been using different approaches in writing about their lived experiences. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Poetry – Communism – Philosophy

Supervisors: Dr H Yeung, Dr F Ruda

Aim. The project aims to take seriously and examine systematically the political implications of the fact that there is no poetry that is not addressed to all. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Understanding multilingualism: Cognitive, linguistic or social aspects of coordinating knowledge about multiple languages

Supervisors: Dr Y Kamide, Dr L Duncan

PLEASE NOTE. This project is for self-funded or externally sponsored students only. We invite applications from strong and motivated candidates to our highly interdisciplinary PhD project on language processing in multilingual contexts. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Bilingualism and multilingualism in young children: Exploring the impact on learning, literacy and communication

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Early development in a bilingual or multilingual context presents both opportunities and challenges for a young child. Much of the research on this issue adopts a general perspective on multilingual learners but this project aims to examine issues specific to the particular languages that the child is learning. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Duncan

The representation of love and relationships in contemporary zine culture

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

The primary objective of this PhD project is to research the representation of love and relationships in contemporary zine culture. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

21st century literary representations of love and relationships in works with themes of disabilities, long-term illness or neurodivergence

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

The primary objective of this PhD project is to research the interaction in literature of love and relationships with themes of disabilities, ill-health or neurodivergence. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Dialects, registers, and accents: investigating the use of sociolinguistic variants

Supervisor: Dr A Melinger

Language is rich with expressive options, including words that tailor speech to the specific situation, e.g., varying by register (potato vs. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

'A Vernacular Scientific Imaginary?' The Origins and Impacts of Science Fiction Stories and Strips in British Comics in the First Half of the 20C

Supervisors: Dr K Williams, Prof C Murray

Aim. This project will explore the idea of a distinctively indigenous and responsive tradition of popular SF aimed at a younger readership before the widespread influence of imported US comics and pulp SF after WW II. Read more

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Understanding Cultural Legal Studies: Interrogating Legal Meanings in Artistic and Popular Culture

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Emerging out of traditions of law and literature, critical legal studies, and law and popular culture, cultural legal studies is an international field that has recently emerged at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary study of law. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Giddens

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Ableism, Microaggressions and the Law

Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F.K. Campbell

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Revealing Abledment: Ableism and the Body Politic

Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Read more

Supervisors: Prof F.K. Campbell, Prof G Pullin

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Sub-Continent Religious Traditions, Disability (Non-normative Bodies)

Miles (2013) estimates that at least half of all the world’s disabled people live Asia. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F.K. Campbell

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

The Language of Textiles

This project aims to explore the relationship between textiles and the language that originates from textiles and permeates into wider usage, as well as the way that wider language affects different areas of textiles. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Glazzard

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only