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Scholarships for PhD students in Applied Linguistics
We are delighted to offer two PhD scholarships linked to these two important topics:
1. Intercultural research on diversity in professional contexts
2. Linguistic Bias in Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence
Meifang Zhuo has received another IATL Project Support Funding
Meifang Zhuo has received another IATL Project Support Funding, with an award of 拢1500, for a student-led interdisciplinary project entitled 'Technostress in the age of generative AI: Voices from L2 doctoral students in the UK. ' In this project, she will be collaborating with and receiving mentoring from two staff members: 飩 Associate Professor, Dr. David Orrego-Carmona from School of Modern Languages and Cultures 飩 Associate Professor, Dr. Carla Toro from Warwick Medical School This project will soon recruit L2 doctoral students in the UK as research participants. Participants will be involved in informative, fun and creative data collection sessions and receive reimbursement/lunch for their participation. Please express your interest by email: meifang.zhuo@warwick.ac.uk.
Congratulations to Marianna Patrick!
Marianna Patrick, who has been offered the post of Research Fellow to support Ema Ushioda鈥檚 Leverhulme Trust project 鈥淣avigating the ethical complexities of using generative AI for academic writing鈥! This is a two-year full-time postdoctoral research position starting in April, and Marianna beat stiff competition from a very large pool (100+) of applicants!
Azadeh Moladoost (Project lead), Nusrat Gulzar & Elyanora Menglieva have been awarded IATL funding
The project is titled 鈥楩ostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context鈥.
Junjie Li & Weizhao Gong have written a publication
Li, J., & Gong, W. (2025). Engaging young language learners in participatory research: Visual arts-based approach. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 100187. See it
Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story
Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story. Phys.org. 2025, 5 February. Activists leverage social media to counter China's state-controlled narratives, Available .