Doctoral Scholarships

The HPSL Basel-Freiburg regularly supports young graduates with doctoral scholarships. The scholarships are advertised on the HPSL website. There you will also find further information on financing doctoral studies.

Financial Support for Research Expenses

The Hermann Paul School of Linguistics Basel-Freiburg (HPSL) awards financial support for research expenses of up to CHF 800 to doctoral students with a linguistic dissertation project at the University of Basel upon application for the uses listed below. Funding is available for:

• linguistic field research / data collection in Switzerland and abroad
• implementation of linguistic experiments
• Volunteer payments for the collection of linguistic data
• Hiring of assistants for linguistic data analysis and transcription of linguistic data
• Invitation of external scientists
• Individual consulting in statistics
• Purchase of special software and electronic equipment for linguistic data collection, linguistic data processing, and linguistic data analysis for individual needs/mobile use

Applications can be submitted at any time. The management committee decides on the granting of financial support, taking into account the budgetary possibilities.

We ask you to submit the following documents:

• general short description of your research project (max. two pages DIN A4),
• a concrete justification of your application, a detailed description of the purpose of the project and a budget plan (max. 2 pages DIN A4),
• curriculum vitae

Applications can be sent electronically to the coordination office (hpsl@unibas.ch).

For other specific funding requests, please contact the Coordination Office.

Conference travel can usually be financed with the help of the University of Basel travel fund for early career researchers. Alternatives are the funding instruments of SAGW and VALS-ASLA. In exceptional cases, conference travel can also be funded through the HPSL. The coordination office will be happy to advise you.

For other specific funding requests, please also contact the coordination office.

Funding of HPSL workshops, guest lectures and conferences

The Doctoral Program in Linguistics organizes and supports events specifically designed for doctoral students. Members of the Doctoral Program in Linguistics have the opportunity to apply for financial support for events offered to doctoral students (workshops, guest lectures, conferences).

Please use the following forms and fact sheets for this purpose.

For further assistance or information such as tips and hints on event organization, please contact the coordination office.

Further funding opportunities

An overview of other funding opportunities can be found on the page of the Department of Junior Staff Development of the Rectorate; note here in particular:

• Mobility
• Doctoral Parents
• Academic Edting

Dissertation printing costs

The Max Geldner Dissertation Fund grants contributions to the printing costs of dissertations at the Faculty of Philosophy and History. In addition to costs incurred for the printing of monographic dissertations, contributions are also made for articles published in the open access procedure for cumulative dissertations. Furthermore, applications for language editing can be submitted if the dissertation was not written in the author's first language or if the author's language skills are not sufficient for a high-quality final editing.

For more information on financial support for research expenses as well as printing fee contributions for dissertations, click here.