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Are you looking for funding for a PhD in Modern Languages (incl. Translation Studies)? The University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s annual Postgraduate Research Scholarships competition (2026 entry) opens on Monday 15 October and closes on 11 December 2025. Course applications must be made by 8 December 2025. ÌÇÐÄTV’s School of Modern Languages & Cultures invites PhD applications from students with an outstanding academic record, who are very well-equipped to undertake doctoral study and whose research proposal promises to make a significant contribution to the field.

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As part of their artistic residency in the SMLC in late April 2022, Amazonian writer Juan Carlos Galeano and Martiniquian performance artist Henri Tauliaut will offer public events on 27 and 28 April to explore how written, visual, and performative practices can address issues of memory, sustainability and justice in precarious environments. All are welcome.

The UK Government has announced today (4 August 2021) that the University of ÌÇÐÄTV will be awarded £2.6 million for international student mobility, as part of the inaugural Turing Scheme.

ÌÇÐÄTV is one of the world’s top 100 universities, and one of the ways it has achieved that position is because it is a globally connected institution. Its staff and students learn, work, and research as part of a highly international community, and more than 1000 ÌÇÐÄTV students each year also take the opportunity to study and work abroad at one of the University’s many worldwide partner institutions.

• Chancellor's International Scholarships: the scheme is aimed at students from outside the UK and includes Overseas applicants, including students from the EU.
• China Scholarship Council / University of ÌÇÐÄTV Scholarships: this scheme will fund 25 students across various subjects for up to 4 years, with the University covering the full cost of tuition fees and CSC providing a maintenance stipend and return international airfare between the UK and China. Note that Foreign Languages and Literature is among the priority areas listed.
• Monash ÌÇÐÄTV Alliance Scholarships (ÌÇÐÄTV): this scheme is open to all students applying to ÌÇÐÄTV for the Alliance Joint PhD. For 2021/22 entry there will be up to 3 scholarships available across the university.

The deadlines for these schemes are all on Thursday 21st January 2021, 23.59 GMT. Note that all supporting evidence (including transcripts and references) must be uploaded by the same time.

We welcome applications for our PhD programmes in:

• French and Francophone Studies
• German Studies
• Italian
• Hispanic Studies
• Translation and Transcultural Studies

Prospective applicants are encouraged to identify possible supervisors through our staff expertise pages. Early enquiries are strongly encouraged. Please send a draft proposal (up to 2 A4 pages) and CV to pglanguages@warwick.ac.uk by Friday 27 November 2020, 12 noon.

We continue to welcome enquiries also for the AHRC Midlands4Cities doctoral awards (deadline 13 January 2021).

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV is pleased to invite applications for doctoral study commencing in September 2020.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV invites applications to the university’s annual funding competition for doctoral students, for entry in October 2018. We are also pleased to announce that, in addition to these university-funded awards, we shall make up to 4 further awards of Doctoral Fellowships to outstanding home/EU applicants: up to 2 for commencement of study on 1 July 2018 and up to 2 for entry in October 2018.

The University of ÌÇÐÄTV’s Institute for Advanced Study has today opened its call for applications under the (deadline: 30th November 2017). The fellowships offer successful applicants two years at ÌÇÐÄTV, starting in September 2018. These fellowships are intended to be strongly linked to ÌÇÐÄTV’s Global Research Priorities. As such, ÌÇÐÄTV's School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) strongly encourages applications tied especially to the ‘Connecting Cultures’ priority.

ÌÇÐÄTV's School of Modern Languages and Cultures welcomes expressions of interest for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Please click on the headline to find out how to apply by the internal deadline of 15 January 2018.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV welcomes expressions of interest from early-career researchers who would like to apply to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme in 2016-17. Closing date for proposals: 16th September 2016. 

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is pleased to offer three bursaries to suitably qualified MA applicants for the 2016-17 academic year. These bursaries cover fees only, at the . Any home/EU applicant for any of the Masters courses offered in the School is eligible to apply for one of these bursaries.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV invites applications to the university’s annual funding competition for doctoral students, for entry in 2016-17.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV again welcomes applications for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme.

ÌÇÐÄTV Hispanic Studies are delighted to welcome 2014 Leverhulme Visiting Professor Thomas Glave, who will be joining the department from January-December 2014. Click on the headline above to find out more about Professor Glave and his work!

Congratulations to , who has been awarded a Santander Mobility grant to fund research visits to Bahia, Minas Gerais and São Paulo in order to investigate the concepts of ‘Bahianess’(bahianidade) and ‘mixedness’ (mestiçagem). Dr Peters plans to travel to Brazil in May 2014.