Funded postgraduate opportunities: call for students

Call for students: 2 Funded Master’s students

2 Funded Master’s projects at the University of Auckland funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand

We are looking for two domestic Master’s students to join our team (Dr Justine Hui, Dr Peter Keegan, Prof Catherine Watson) to examine how we hear speech sounds, (in particular, te reo Māori) in different acoustic environments. The project is funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden grant, and the student will be hosted at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland. One Master’s student will be designing and implementing a virtual acoustics system to examine how we perceive sounds in our acoustically varied world, and the other will focus on investigating how listeners of different te reo Māori knowledge perceive the sounds in various acoustic environments. 

We are seeking applicants with a degree in Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences, Psychology, Linguistics), Engineering (including Electrical/Computer Systems/Software/Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Science or Computer Science) or a related discipline. 

A suitable candidate should ideally have:

  • Knowledge and/or strong interest in te reo Māori, phonetics and acoustics
  • Interest in speech sciences, acoustics, psychology and signal processing
  • Some coding skills and be comfortable with learning new technologies

Funding amount: NZD 22,000 stipend plus tuition fees for one year.

Please send your CV and transcript to justine.hui@auckland.ac.nz 

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Self-funded/UoA scholarship: 

Potential PhD projects in areas of: speech and hearing sciences, phonetics, speech perception and production, hearing impairment and hearing assistive devices, second language acquisition 

A suitable candidate should ideally have a masters or honours degree in  Engineering (including Electrical/Computer Systems/Software/Biomedical/Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Science or Computer Science), Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences, Psychology, Linguistics), or a related discipline.

Please send your proposal related to any of the above topics and CV and transcript to justine.hui@auckland.ac.nz

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