Department within the Languages and Cultures of East Asia

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Overview

The Department provides the largest coverage in Europe of research and teaching connected while using languages and cultures within the principal countries of East Asia. Its primary commitment should be to some languages Burmese, Indonesian/Malay, Thai and Vietnamese, additionally for their literatures, cinemas and connected cultures. REF 2014 submissions by individuals within the Department incorporated significant and paradigm-shifting monographs, edited collections, journal articles and book chapters in cinema and gender, literary critique, cultural background postcolonial studies. It’s a flourishing and friendly Department with close links to recent alumni .

The study interests within the Department’s people include: classical Malay literature modern literature in Malay, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese Islam in East Asia language pedagogy phonetics gender studies dental literature and folklore cinema in East Asia and translation. These interests are more and more more reflected in the type of work that’s transported by helping cover their the Department’s current doctorate researchers.

A whole research training programme is supplied at Faculty level, in addition for that close attention each doctorate investigator receives utilizing their supervisor.

MPhil/PhD students famous for the Department receive research comprehending the school-wide newbie research training seminar and they are requested to learn discipline-specific training provided through the college Center for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) and research skills training coordinated using the Doctorate School .

The Department provides supervision for full-serious amounts of part-time doctorate researchers undertaking supervised research in many of East Asian languages and literatures. Theses completed recently have incorporated topics in traditional Lao literature, contemporary Thai fiction, the syntax of spoken Mon, the ‘cisco’ kid play in Indonesia, Malay dental literature, schoolbooks in colonial Burma, pre-Angkor Cambodia and political literature in Vietnam.

Underneath the rules of SOAS, College situated in london, all doctorate researchers register initially by having an MPhil: they might transfer to PhD after finishing twelve several days, after they wish and vulnerable to approval using the School, which requires evidence the candidate’s jobs are getting this standard needed.

The minimum duration for full-time doctorate researchers is 24 several weeks for the MPhil and 3 years for the PhD. Part-time doctorate researchers normally take two occasions as extended to accomplish their studies. When their studies completed, candidates submit a thesis for that examiners, then attend a viva voce examination.

Applicants for postgraduate levels must have a very good command within the language of the idea of study, and could normally have a very good first degree within the appropriate subject, but students along with other qualifications and experience can also be qualified, and applications from mature students are particularly welcome. As needed to develop their selected subject, doctorate researchers will most likely be envisioned getting or acquire an sufficient studying understanding of Nederlander and/or French. All potential applicants are smart to start to see the Department before they apply. More general queries must be provided to the Department Research Tutor so that you can the Doctorate School .

Dr Ben Murtagh BA MA(LONDON) PHD (LONDON) Mind of Department
Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian literature good status for Indonesia film in Indonesia and Malaysia gender and sexuality in Indonesia

Dr Rachel Harrison BA PHD(LONDON)
Modern literary, cultural, film and gender studies with regards to Thailand literary critique and East Asian Literatures within the comparative context Western cinema occur East Asia

Dr Dana Healy PHD(PRAGUE)
Admissions Tutor
Vietnamese language and literature, language teaching folk literature, modern poetry, theatre, art

Dr David A Smyth BA PHD(LONDON)
The Thai novel Thai literary historiography Thai language modern Thai history language teaching

Dr Justin Watkins BA(LEEDS) MA PHD(LONDON)
Burmese language and literature Khmer language Mon-khmer and Tibeto-Burman languages phonetics computer lexicography.

Structure

Plenty of students register in year one of the programme as MPhil students. The upgrade from MPhil to PhD exist in the final outcome within the first academic session for full-time students (or possibly within the conclusion within the second academic session for part-time students).

Brand-new MPhil/PhD students are supplied obtaining a supervisory committee of three people, comprising a principal or primary supervisor, another and third supervisor. The split as time passes commitment inside the supervisory committee is 60:25:15. Within the newbie students have to fulfill their primary supervisor round the bi-weekly cause for a number of hour.

Students’s primary supervisor is unquestionably part of the Department where the student is registered. The 2nd and third supervisors, who act within the extra advisory capacity, might be inside the same Department, or any other Departments/Centres within the Faculty of Languages and Cultures or even in Departments/Centres within the other Ability within the School.

According to the nature within the research, joint supervision may also be suggested, underneath the direction of two primary supervisors. In such cases students only has any supervisor on their own committee.

Students’s progress is further supervised getting a Departmental Research Tutor.

Within the newbie, students get ready for research upon an analysis training seminar series (RTS) convened inside the Faculty level using the Affiliate Dean for Research and using the generic training provided by Learning and Teaching Development .

Students utilized in the fields of literature and cultural studies also requested to own fun playing the additional training offered within the Center for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS).

Students can also be encouraged by supervisors to go to additional trained courses tightly related to their research and to their training needs. This could include specialist disciplinary, language or regional culture courses or research learning other Departments outdoors the school.

Year 1 full-time students (year 2 for part-time students) are required to submit a core chapter and research proposal (of roughly 10,000 words) by Friday sixth May 2016, typically which follow elements:

1. Research rationale and context of suggested research
2. Primary research questions
3. Literature review
4. Theoretical and methodological framework and factors
5. Suggested research methods
6. Ethical issues (where relevant)
7. Outlining structure of PhD dissertation
8. Schedule of research and writing
9. Bibliography.

Modifications in many these sections, including additions or deletions where appropriate, are possible by prior arrangement relating to the students and lead supervisors.

The upgrade process from MPhil to PhD status uses test within the core chapter using the student’s research committee, and upon round the 20-half an hour dental presentation, adopted getting attorney at law. The dental presentation is supplied to Departmental staff and research students furthermore for the 3 individuals from the student’s supervisory committee who subsequently speak with students individually for almost any small viva of 30-40 minutes drilling lower towards the detail within the upgrade chapter. On effective finishing the extended proposal, students are formally upgraded to PhD and go to the second year. (When the assessors consider there to obtain shortcomings within the upgrade proposal, students will most likely be requested to revise it for satisfaction prior to the upgrade to PhD status may be confirmed.) Students aren’t normally allowed to go to the 2nd year before the upgrade process remains completed.

The 2nd year (or part-time equivalent) is generally spent associated with research. This really is frequently by mixture of fieldwork and research in libraries and material collection as agreed relating to the student along with the supervisor(s).

The Following year (or part-time equivalent) is dedicated to writing up research for the PhD thesis. In those times, students will frequently provide a presentation within the research seminar organised using the Departmental Research Tutor, comprising a select amount of staff people with special understanding in the subject along with other research students. With the third year (or part-time equivalent) students might have draft chapters for primary supervisor for comment, before finishing one further draft within the thesis. Each time a full draft is finished, the job is assessed by everyone within the supervisory committee along with the student may submit the thesis or visit Continuation Status obtain the additional 12 a few days to accomplish the thesis and submit for examination. The thesis needs to be completed within 48 a few days when of registration (or part-time equivalent).

The thesis to not exceed 100,000 words extended – is examined by two leading government physiques within the field, among whom is internal for that College situated in london the other who’s exterior for that College.

PhD Levels are awarded by SOAS from registration in 2013 and they are vulnerable to SOAS rules.

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