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Furkan Kır
@furkankir.bsky.social
PhD in Language & Rhetoric @ University of Washington | Interested in Applied Linguistics, Social Justice, Language Teacher Identity, Intersectionality, & English-Medium Instruction 🦄 (he/him) · Γενηθήτω φως 📍Seattle / Cyprus
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See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org
Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.
www.responsiblenlp.org
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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📢 New #PhDOpportunity!

@sgsah.bsky.social & The Reading Agency offer a new funded Phd opportunity in @uofgeducation.bsky.social . The project investigates how teenagers engage with Reading Well book collections from the Agency.

The deadline to apply is 26th May.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/bddhru54
May 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
March 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🚨 My new paper is out in Current Issues in Language Planning and is open access! 🔓 I analyze Twitter reactions to a policy on multilingual theses in Turkish higher ed. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1080/1466...
Language ideologies in new media: grassroots resistance to a multilingual language policy
In November 2023, the Turkish Council of Higher Education introduced a language policy permitting theses in Turkish-medium graduate programs to be written in languages other than Turkish. Although ...
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Join us during #AAAL2025 for a panel that brings together leading scholars to discuss the realities of doing decolonial work in applied linguistics.

✨ Ryuko Kubota
✨ Suresh Canagarajah@sureshcanax.bsky.social
✨ Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social

🔗 Registration: forms.gle/u2bWSy725haE...
February 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025.

www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...
Vacancies - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.hf.uio.no
December 27, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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The call for proposals for the 3rd International Symposium on Social Justice in English Language Teaching is now open! Join us on the 30-31st of May 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey! Both virtual and in-person presentations are welcome. Details 👇 @elinet-lsj.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
📝We are looking for writers to contribute to the Spring 2025 issue of the AAALGrads Newsletter.
📑Read the Call for Proposals on page 32 of our Newsletter here aaal-gsc.org/fall-2024-ne...
📩Submit your proposal here no later than January 20.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
📚✨ A huge thank you to Dr. Lin and Dr. Talmy and everyone who attended our webinar last Friday! Your engagement, thoughtful questions, and insights made this event a true success. We’re grateful for the opportunity to connect and share ideas with such an amazing group of academics and professionals.
November 24, 2024 at 6:20 AM
🔔📝My new paper on the experiences of students who dropped out of an English-medium university. #Bourdieu #EMI

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
English-medium instruction (EMI) as the great (un)equaliser: experiences of former EMI students in T...
English-medium instruction (EMI) has gained traction in Turkey in recent decades. However, strict English proficiency requirements at EMI universities pose a problem for many students, whose Englis...
www.tandfonline.com
January 15, 2024 at 8:17 AM