Funded PhD and Masters places in Aural Diversity
Trevor Cox
Closing date 28 February 2025
The Leverhulme Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub (LAURA) is now recruiting a second cohort of research students to start in September 2025. We are offering the following places:
- Six 4-year PhD scholarships, of which up to two can be international students
- Three 5-year Master’s plus PhD scholarships (UK only, targeted at widening participation applicants)
- Two 1-year MPhil scholarships (UK only)
Our new website at https://laura.salford.ac.uk/ includes a long list of potential PhD topics and supervisors, FAQs and details on how to apply.
All the studentships attract the standard UK stipend of £19,237 per year. Leverhulme-funded PhD students also get up to £10k per student for research expenses. Typical research expenses include participant recruitment and field & conference trips.
We will hold a webinar for applicants on Wed 5 Feb 2025 at 1300 GMT (on Microsoft Teams). In the webinar, I’ll outline the programme, funding and application process. LAURA supervisors will introduce themselves and their topics. We’ll answer your questions (mic or chat).
Aural diversity is the fairly new idea that hearing/listening differences between individuals and groups might be better represented as a spectrum instead of a binary normal/impaired division. The PhD topics will build on the early work of the https://auraldiversity.org/ research network to apply the aural diversity concept in many disciplines concerned with sound. Hence, the PhDs are mostly rather interdisciplinary and a bit different from mainstream hearing science.
For further information, including how to apply, please refer to our website at https://laura.salford.ac.uk/ We encourage interested applicants to contact potential supervisors for an informal discussion. For questions which are not about a specific PhD topic, you can email see-...@salford.ac.uk