{"id":105,"date":"2025-06-24T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:06:27","slug":"phd-projects-with-emi-corpus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/phd-projects-with-emi-corpus\/","title":{"rendered":"PHD PROJECTS WITH EMI CORPUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We invite <strong>PhD proposals<\/strong> (to be carried out at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University) that seek to <strong>draw on the analysis of the new large-scale EMI Corpus<\/strong> from a range of perspectives. PhD proposals can be submitted at any time throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The projects<\/strong> can focus on the topics below (and modify them as appropriate), or the candidates can propose a different topic. We welcome proposals with different types of focus &#8211; for example, they can adopt the following approaches:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Descriptive<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; describing different aspects of academic language,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Comparative<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; comparing the language use in the EMI corpus with different corpora\/datasets,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Applied<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; projects with application for language teaching, learning or assessment).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The projects can focus on different aspects of contribution to our understanding of EMI and academic writing and their combinations: <strong>theoretical<\/strong>, <strong>methodological<\/strong> or <strong>practical<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you are interested in proposing a PhD project using the EMI Corpus and would like to discuss this further, you can email <a href=\"d.gablasova@lancaster.ac.uk\">Dr Dana Gablasova<\/a> (d.gablasova@lancaster.ac.uk).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You can read more about the PhD studies at our department at Lancaster University on our website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/linguistics\/phd\/\">PhD studies<\/a>. This website also contains information about the application process and available <strong>scholarships and bursaries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Suggested research topics with the EMI Corpus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Cross-disciplinary differences in academic writing (comparing writing from disciplinary areas)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Specific linguistics features\/functions in the academic writing in the corpus (e.g. lexical, grammatical, pragmatic features in student academic writing in specific disciplines)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Effect of writer\/assignment variables (e.g. the mark, perceived level of difficulty) on linguistic features in student writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Relationship between marks awarded and the linguistic features in student writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Change in academic writing overtime (comparing the EMI Corpus with other corpora of student academic writing).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Genre and register features in student academic writing (across different disciplines)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Comparison of disciplinary writing (from the EMI Corpus) and EAP writing (e.g. from EAP classes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>Use of formulaic language in student academic writing (e.g. collocations, lexical bundles, multi-word expressions)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite PhD proposals (to be carried out at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University) that seek to draw on the analysis of the new large-scale EMI Corpus from a range of perspectives. PhD proposals can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/phd-projects-with-emi-corpus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/emi-corpus-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}