The successful applicant is committed to conducting independent and original scientific research, to report on this research in international publications and presentations, and to present the final results of the research in a PhD dissertation. The PhD candidate participates in local, national and international training activities, including summer schools and conferences, to maximally develop his or her potential as a scientific researcher. Some participation in faculty teaching is negotiable.

As a member of the Graduate School for the Humanities, a PhD candidate may participate in courses, seminars and summer schools organized by Dutch national graduate school Landelijke Onderzoeksschool Taalkunde (LOT) and/or by the Groningen Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN).

Linguistic research in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen is organized in the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), which includes 4 research lines:
• Computational Linguistics
• Discourse and Communication
• Neurolinguistics and Language Development
• Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics.

The proposed PhD research must be closely connected with research currently carried out within one of these research lines. Please consult the CLCG web pages for a description of the research groups and their work:www.rug.nl/research/clcg/

Requirements
We are looking for talented and ambitious researchers in the relevant discipline.
Your qualifications are:
• a Master's degree in linguistics (or related discipline) with an excellent academic record
• proven research abilities and affinity with the research topic
• excellent command of English and good academic writing skills.

Further details:
http://www.academictransfer.com