Graus de Pesquisa (MPhil / PhD) em Linguística

O programa de doutorado em Linguística é um programa de treinamento rigoroso e estruturado, com diferentes atividades e requisitos ocorrendo ao longo do período do programa.

All students register in year 1 of the programme as MPhil students. The upgrade from MPhil to PhD registration takes place at the end of the first academic session for full-time students (or at the end of the second academic session for part-time students).

All new MPhil/PhD students are provided with a supervisory committee of three members, comprising a main or primary supervisor, and a second and third supervisor. The split in time commitment across the supervisory committee is 60:25:15. In the first year, students are expected to meet their main supervisor on a bi-weekly basis for a period of at least one hour.

The student’s primary supervisor is always a member of the Department in which the student is registered. The second and third supervisors, who act in a supplementary advisory capacity, may be from the same Department, or other Departments/Centres in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures or in Departments/Centres in the other Faculties of the School.

Depending on the nature of the research, joint supervision is sometimes recommended, under the direction of two primary supervisors. In such cases, the student has only one further supervisor on their committee.

O progresso do aluno é supervisionado pelo Tutor de Pesquisa Departamental.

Year 1

No primeiro ano, os alunos se preparam para a pesquisa participando do seminário de treinamento em pesquisa (RTS) em Linguística, convocado pelo Tutor de Pesquisa Departamental e apoiado pelo treinamento genérico oferecido pela Diretoria de Desenvolvimento Acadêmico (ADD).

Students may also be encouraged by supervisors to attend additional taught courses relevant to their research and to their training needs. These may include specialist disciplinary, language or regional culture courses or research training in other Departments outside the Faculty.

All MPhil/PhD students are encouraged to attend the talks of the departmental seminar series or those organised by the Centre for Language Pedagogy or the Centre for Translation Studies. In addition, there are special PhD seminars in which advanced PhD students present their work and which are open to staff and students.

Alunos do 1º ano em período integral (2º ano para alunos de meio período) devem enviar um capítulo principal e uma proposta de pesquisa (de cerca de 10.000 palavras), geralmente incluindo os seguintes elementos:

• Research rationale and context of the proposed research
• Main research questions
• Literature review
• Theoretical and methodological framework and considerations
• Proposed research methods
• Ethical issues (where applicable)
• Outline structure of PhD dissertation
• Schedule of research and writing
• Bibliography

Adjustments to one or more of these sections, including additions or deletions where appropriate, are possible by prior arrangements between the students and lead supervisors.

O processo de atualização do status de MPhil para PhD é baseado em uma avaliação do capítulo principal e da proposta de pesquisa pelo comitê de pesquisa do aluno, e em uma apresentação oral de 20 a 30 minutos, seguida de discussão. A apresentação oral é feita para a equipe do Departamento, membros do comitê de supervisão e alunos de pesquisa. Isso é seguido por uma entrevista de 10 a 15 minutos entre o aluno e o comitê. Após a conclusão bem-sucedida do processo de atualização, os alunos são formalmente atualizados para PhD e prosseguem para o segundo ano. (Se os avaliadores considerarem que há deficiências no capítulo principal ou na proposta de pesquisa, os alunos serão solicitados a revisá-lo para sua satisfação antes que a atualização para o status de PhD possa ser confirmada.) Os alunos normalmente não têm permissão para prosseguir para o segundo ano até que o processo de atualização seja concluído.

Year 2

The second year (or part-time equivalent) is normally spent engaged in research. This may be by any combination of fieldwork and research in libraries and the material collection as agreed between the student and the supervisor(s).

Year 3

The third year (or part-time equivalent) is devoted to writing up research for the PhD thesis. During this time, students will normally give a presentation in the PhD seminar series organised by the Departmental Research Tutor, which is open to staff members and other research students. During the third year (or part-time equivalent) students will present draft chapters to their main supervisor for comment, before completing a final draft of the thesis. Once a full draft is complete, the work is assessed by all members of the supervisory committee and the student can either submit the thesis or move on to Continuation Status to be given a further 12 months to complete the thesis and submit for examination.

The thesis must be completed within 48 months from the time of registration (or part-time equivalent).

The thesis – not to exceed 100,000 words in length – is examined by two leading authorities in the field.

Os títulos de doutorado são concedidos pela SOAS a partir do registro em 2013 e estão sujeitos aos regulamentos SOAS .

Graduates of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics leave SOAS not only with linguistic and cultural expertise, but also with skills in written and oral communication, analysis and problem solving.

Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Africa Matters
• Amnesty International
• Arab British Chamber of Commerce
• BBC World Service
• British High Commission
• Council for British Research in the Levant
• Department for International Development
• Edelman
• Embassy of Jordan
• Ernst & Young
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Google
• Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
• Middle East Eye
• Saïd Foundation
• TalkAbout Speech Therapy
• The Black Curriculum
• The Telegraph
• United Nations Development Programme
• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
• Wall Street Journal