PhD in Dialectology

CURLEW (Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales) is a four-year project (from August 2026) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the International Co-Investigator Scheme with the UK's ESRC and AHRC./nIt is a collaboration between David Britain (Bern, PI), Paul Foulkes (York), Adrian Leemann (Bern) and David Willis (Oxford)./nThe aim of CURLEW is to conduct a census of urban and rural language in England and Wales, providing a rich snapshot of the English language using contemporary sociolinguistic sampling techniques, studying a broad cross-section of the population (young and old, urban and rural, speakers of different genders, social classes and ethnic backgrounds)./nModelled on the Swiss Dialäktatlas and serving as a counterpart to the historic Survey of English Dialects from the 1950s and 60s./nAdditional PhD positions are available in York and Oxford.