12 PhD Scholarships: Humanities 1253 views

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for four PhD scholarships at each of the following three departments:

• Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies (EnGeRom)
• Department of Media, Cognition and Communication (MEF)
• Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS)

Starting date: 1 September 2018

Duration: up to 3 years

Requirements:

• Applicants must hold a two-year Master’s degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent.
• Applicants must have submitted their thesis at the time of application, to the extent the thesis forms part of their Master program.
• In case applicant have not obtained your diploma by the application deadline, he/she must include a statement (pre-approval) from university declaring that the master degree have been awarded.
• Applicants with a non-Danish Master’s degree will have their degree assessed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in order to establish, if the Master’s degree is equivalent to a Danish Master’s degree.
• Applicant must possess excellent communication skills in English (speak and write).

Application:

Application must include the following materials:

• Project description with the overall objectives, reflections on the project’s method and design as well as a timetable. (not to exceed 12,000 characters)
• CV including a list of publications, if available, must be submitted with the application.
• Statement of consent
• Recommendations and publications
• Diploma and transcript of records
• A copy of the applicant’s Master’s degree diploma (if not available before the application deadline, a pre-approval must be submitted)
• A copy of the applicant’s Master’s degree transcript of records (an official description of the grading scale must be included)
• A copy of the applicant’s Bachelor’s degree diploma
• A copy of the applicant’s Bachelor’s degree transcript of records (an official description of the grading scale must be included)
• If the MA diploma and/or examination records are in another language than English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, please include a translation into either of these languages in your application.