By Anjali Gopal. It’s often not very easy to form good social groups in graduate school. In August 2012, Gradhacker Megan Johnson wrote about the Lonely Life of an Academic and more recently, Quartz wrote about the “general feeling of isolation” as one of the more unsavoury parts of pursuing a PhD. Read more...
By Vimal Patel. Like a sports coach, Dwight A. McBride studies his "win-loss data." As the dean of Northwestern University’s graduate school, he closely tracks his wins, when a graduate student with competing offers chooses his institution, and his losses, when that student goes somewhere else. More...
By Melonie Fullick. The Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) has been working on a study about PhDs in Canada, their career paths and contributions to the economy and society, titled Inside and Outside the Academy: Valuing and Preparing PhDs for Careers. The report, by Jessica Edge and Daniel Munro, was published earlier this week. I was keen to get a look at it because the issues in it relate directly to some of the things I’ve been researching and writing about over the past few years, both in this blog and in my dissertation (for example, in my previous two posts). There still isn’t much solid information available about the PhD in Canada and doctoral students’ choices and experiences, so new research is always a treat. More...
Par Orientations. Depuis sa première édition, en 2014, « Ma thèse en 180 secondes » connaît un grand succès. Ce concours, organisé par la Conférence des présidents d'université (CPU) et le Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) pour la troisième année consécutive, donne la possibilité à de nombreux doctorants de voir leur étude sous un autre angle. Suite...
Pour mieux valoriser le diplôme du doctorat (bac + 8) récompensant une recherche originale, Thierry Mandon, secrétaire d'Etat chargé de l'Enseignement supérieur, prépare un plan pour améliorer leur insertion professionnelle. Les secteurs du privé et du public sont concernés. Voir l'article...
Digital Humanities: Fully Funded PhD Studentship: Big Scripture: Tracking Translations, Citations and Paraphrases in Multilingual e-Corpus Text Data
The College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Science, Swansea University, invite applications for a fully funded PhD in Digital Humanities.
The project’s objective is to create new ways of discovering, tracking and understanding past and present uses of scriptural texts (Bible, Quran) in massive text corpora, leveraging multiple translations in diverse languages in diverse sources. The sub-objectives are: (a) to track the translational (in)stability of concepts, passages, events, and named entities; (b) to track citations/paraphrases across linked e-corpora (archives of books and newspapers, new web corpora); (c) to develop techniques using dynamic, interactive visualisations to support exploratory analyses of this kind of big, fuzzy natural language data; (d) to encourage public engagement with this research.
The project is significant for comparative religious studies, politics, sociology, cultural histories, area studies, linguistics and translation studies, web studies, digital humanities and big text data analytics. It aims to transform academic and public understandings of cross-language religious tradition and change.
Corpora of complete or near-complete scripture texts include Bible.com (1143 Bible texts in 822 languages, including 42 English versions: corpus total c.800m words) and smaller online Quran corpora. Fragments of scripture are extant in translations in vast numbers in diverse online sources, and new ones constantly appear. Multimedia (audio/visual) corpora may also be exploited.
Translations vary due to language usage changes, differing interpretations by translating organisations and individuals, differing purposes and differing target audiences. Differences in selections of citations and paraphrases, and differences between versions used and/or adapted, reflect theological and political controversies around concepts, events, characters and places. Innovative digital methods can make this rich research material accessible. This is of very wide public interest, from ISIS to GOP.
Translations corpora will be used to train automated searches in other corpora, to discover which elements of which versions are cited (and adapted) in what contexts. Modelling intertextualities among corpora at scale requires use of Wales’s High Performance Computing facilities, testing different combinations of different analytic models and their approximations to “ground truth”. More...
Pour la troisième année consécutive, la Conférence des présidents d’université (CPU) et le CNRS s’associent pour organiser le concours Ma thèse en 180 secondes en France. Voir l'article...
In spring 2015, EUA Solutions, one of EUA’s special membership services, concluded an evaluation exercise at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. The purpose of the exercise was to evaluate the management of doctoral education at the university. More...
The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (CDE) has published a Call for Presentations for the 9th CDE thematic workshop to be held at Delft University, the Netherlands, on 20-21 January 2016, entitled “Doctoral Supervision – practices and responsibilities”. The workshop will look at the supervisor-supervisee relationship, institutional practices and how to engage with supervisors. More...
Sur le blog Educpros de François Fourcade. Ce concours, co-organisé par le CNRS et la Conférence des présidents d’université, qui consiste à présenter le fruit d’un travail de thèse nécessairement long et complexe en seulement 180 petites secondes [à retrouver ici], connaît un succès grandissant. L’enthousiasme est perceptible tant du côté des jeunes docteurs qui s’inscrivent nombreux aux sélections régionales que du côté du public. Voir l'article...
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