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Research training seminar

The heart of research training is the Research Training Seminar (RTS), which is compulsory for all MA and MSc students (as module LAN00034M) and for first year PhD students who did not complete a masters in the department.

It is intended to give you training in research skills specific to Linguistics programmes. The seminar is held over all three terms. Many members of staff participate in the teaching, so that you are able to benefit from our combined expertise in a range of linguistics research skills.

The Research Training Seminars are held weekly and last one hour in the Autumn term and up to two hours in the Spring and Summer Terms. The training is organised by theme. Autumn term covers research design and writing skills in linguistics, Spring term covers the development and presentation of research plans, and also offers a number of subject-specific workshops. Summer term focuses on communicating research to others, and offers further subject-specific training.

Some examples of the sessions that are run:

  • Research Design
  • Writing in linguistics
  • Formulating hypotheses, developing research questions, planning a research design.
  • Using corpora for dissertation research
  • Fieldwork and sampling in Sociolinguistics
  • Using a repeated measures ANOVA design in Psycholinguistic research
  • CV writing and job applications
  • Praat Scripting

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