Sociolinguistics University of Essex

Overview

Examples of PhD projects which the students have undertaken include studies of the consequences of language contact between Arabic and Cypriot Greek, dialect contact and acquisition of American children in British schools, responses to different types of announcements, and linguistic resources to express agreement.

Many of the former PhD students work in higher education institutions around the world, as teachers and/or as academic researchers. Other career paths the former PhD students have taken include publishing, social work, administration, and retail.

Your future

Given the breadth of the provision within the Department of Language and Linguistics, career prospects for the graduates of the PhD Sociolinguistics from University of Essex vary depending on the study undertaken. Often the career destination of the PhD students is university lecturing or research. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the areas of linguistics they cover, this could be in departments of English, linguistics, education, sociology or cognitive science.