Two Fully-funded PhD Studentships in Spoken Language Technologies at University of Sheffield 2025

Two Fully-funded PhD Studentships in Spoken Language Technologies

• The University of Sheffield is offering two fully-funded PhD studentships in the field of Spoken Language Technologies (SLTs).
• SLTs involve a range of AI approaches for analyzing, producing, and responding to spoken and written language, drawing from disciplines like acoustics, signal processing, machine learning, psychology, computational linguistics, and more.
• The studentships aim to explore interdisciplinary research topics related to speech and language technologies.

Research Topics

Each PhD candidate will work on one of the following research topics:

Accessible Democracy

• This research aims to develop technologies to make the proceedings of UK Houses of Parliament and cross-party Select Committees accessible.
• The focus is on providing access to linguistic and paralinguistic data in parliamentary audio recordings. Example objectives include helping journalists identify newsworthy events, search tasks, creating alerts, or summarizing content.

Funding

The studentships offer full funding for 3.5 years and cover:

• Home or International tuition fees
• An enhanced stipend of £22,280 tax-free (for 2025/26)
• A research and training support grant of £2,500 per year for research expenses and conference attendance

Application Process

• The application deadline is 23:59 on 13 April 2025. Further eligibility details and application guidance can be found on the University of Sheffield's website.