117 PhD programmes in Linguistics in Europe

How do we conceive of the world? What is the structure and composition of our concepts? How do we represent in our minds categories, individuals, relations, properties, events, or sentence meanings? The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is a research centre that addresses such issues.

The Comparative Literature Research programme offered by King's College London explores literary traditions, cultural exchange, and textual interpretation across languages, periods, and global regions.

The theoretical core of the PhD programme Language, Linguistics and Cognition from Aarhus University  is linguistics in a broad sense. It includes all significant language-related aspects of psychology, physiology and society.

The goal of the Linguistics programme of Tallinn University is to train researchers and instructors in the field of linguistics.

Through the Modern Languages MA by Res  programme from The University of Exeter all students have a primary and a secondary supervisor who provide regular, high quality advice, support and direction in their academic endeavours. You will work closely with your supervisors to develop, investigate and write-up a project at the cutting edge of research.

In this Linguistics programme at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, you will gain advanced, detailed knowledge related to this area of research.

Staff at the Finno-Ugric Languages section of the Department of Modern Languages at Uppsala University have wide interests covering the whole Finno-Ugric language family, ranging from Scandinavia to Siberia.

The Cognitive Science and Language programme offered by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona develops advanced research expertise through interdisciplinary study of linguistics, cognition, and philosophy.

PhD studies in English at Karlstad University may be pursued with a specialisation in linguistics or literature, and admitted PhD candidates have the opportunity to design their dissertation projects within either of these subject areas.

The nexus between people and language is where most sociolinguistic research takes place, and at the University of Liverpool, research in Sociolinguistics focuses in particular on the relationship between society and language, drawing on expertise from Modern Languages.

The Applied Linguistics programme offered by Swansea University enables doctoral researchers to undertake a substantial project led by their own passions and interests. 

The Dimensions of Constructional Space Research Training Group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will explore a relatively new paradigm in linguistics that has become known under the name of Construction Grammar (CxG).

The University of Sussex offers research supervision in a wide range of subdisciplines of English language and Linguistics.

The Linguodidactics programme from University of Presov will help you understand the relationship between language acquisition and language learning, relations among teaching theories, concepts of language teaching, teaching methods, activities and the teacher's interaction style.

The Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (Online) programme from University of Nottingham offers a fascinating opportunity to study the interaction between language and the real world.

The curriculum of the Linguistics program at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is designed to provide students with exhaustive knowledge on humanities and social sciences, as well as detailed linguistic knowledge.

The Applied Linguistics (Structured) program from Mary Immaculate College is a four-year, full-time programme which includes a combination of taught modules (in Year 1 of the programme) and individual research, the principal component being the doctoral thesis.