SMLC - News and events
PhD funding opportunities for International Students
- 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 Warwick 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 Warwick Alliance Scholarships (Warwick): this scheme is open to all students applying to Warwick 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).
Raquel Navas wins the ASELE 2020 Research Prize
Raquel Navas, Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, has been awarded with the ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ (Asociaciรณn para la enseรฑanza del espaรฑol como lengua extranjera) ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ for her work on Linguist Landscapes as a tool to promote connections with the target language and culture. This award recognizes the best dissertation of the year and will publish Raquel's work in 2021.
For more information: Asele research prizes
Provincialising Nature: Politics of the Environment in Latin America, edited by Dr Michela Coletta, Hispanic Studies, now open access
Provincialising Nature: Politics of the Environment in Latin America, edited by Dr Michela Coletta, Hispanic Studies, now open access
https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog/book/provincialising-nature
New LinkedIn page for languages students and alumni
We've now got an SMLC LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13877964
The hope is that it will allow languages alumni to share their experiences of professional life after Warwick with fellow alumni and to offer advice and tips to current students. Join now!
video message for finalists
Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for finalists. You can listen to it here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5704.mp4
We'll provide details of a virtual celebration of the end of term and of degree results in due course.
Stay safe, stay in touch and have a good summer.
video message for intermediate students
Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for intermediate-year students. You can listen to it here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5703.mp4
We gathered together some ideas for keeping up language learning for our offer holders but many work for more advanced linguists too - take a look: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/offerholder
Stay safe and have a good summer.
video message for first years
Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for first years. You can listen to it here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5702.mp4
We gathered together some ideas for keeping up language learning for our offer holders but many work for more advanced linguists too - take a look: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/offerholder
We'll provide more suggestions of preparatory reading for year 2 in due course.
Stay safe and have a good summer.
SMLC students selected to join Brazilian summer school
At the start of 2019 Warwick was invited to nominate two students to attend the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)'s Summer School on Brazilian Studies. After a competitive selection process, Lucia Evans and Will Gennings from Warwick's School of Modern Languages and Cultures were awarded scholarships co-funded by UFMG and Warwick.
Sprint Personal Development programme for female undergraduates
Michela Coletta (Hispanic Studies) speaks in Denmark on Cultural Hegemony, Heterogeneity and the Politics of Difference: Problematising a Global Framework of Environmental Governance from Latin America
Michela Coletta will be co-presenting with Dr Malayna Raftopolous at the workshop 'Global Environmental and Global Security Governance' at Aalborg University (Denmark) on 1 December.
Congratulations to Rosalind Harvey on being longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2018!
Congratulations to Hispanic Studies' Rosalind Harvey, whose translation of Juan Pablo Villalobos' novel I'll Sell You a Dog has been longlisted for this year's International Dublin Literary Award!
SMLC invites applications for PhD funding (Oct 2018 entry)
The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick invites applications to the universityโs 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.
Congratulations to Hispanic Studies undergraduate prizewinners!
We are incredibly proud of our inaugural Hispanic Studies prizewinners. These prizes reflect some really outstanding contributions and achievements. Congratulations to all of you!