PhD Linguistics at Queen's University Belfast

Programme overview

A research doctorate in the School of Arts, English and Languages, supervising research across the key sub-disciplines of linguistics. Students join a community of over 200 full-time and part-time research students and can specialise in particular languages such as English, French, Irish or Chinese.

Faculty: Arts, English and Languages | Department: School of Arts, English and Languages | Intake: 2027/28 academic year | Study mode: full-time / part-time | Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

What you will study

Supervised research areas include sociolinguistics, language variation and change, language policy (education, community and minoritised languages), place-names, language in new media, narrative, literature, rhetoric, discourse analysis and translation, and phonetics and phonology, lexicology, morphology-syntax and pragmatics. Students can use Graduate School training, the Postgraduate Researcher Development Programme and the Centre for Research in Linguistics.

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Application information

Entry requirements

A 2:1 Honours degree or equivalent acceptable to the University. A Master's degree is desirable but not essential; applicants without one are considered case by case. International applicants: IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component (taken within the last 2 years) or equivalent.

International applicants: GBP 23,600 a year (2027/28). International and EU Other rate; NI, ROI and GB rates listed as TBC Source

Intake: October 2027

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