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Research statement videos
Watch members of staff talk about their research in a series of videos produced by the university's New Media Center.
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Dr. Aline Bieri’s PhD thesis now available open access
Congratulations to Aline Bieri, whose PhD thesis entitled Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in a Swiss context: the linguistic challenges and implications of teaching biology in English (CLIL) and German (non-CLIL) analyzed…/ Research, People
From Yiddish to English: How the bagel came to America
PD Dr. Julia Landmann has investigated which Yiddish words successfully made their way into the English language./ Doctorate/PhD
PhD Start-up Grants of CHF 30,000: Call for Applications
The Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for two one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000 (start: 1 April 2025).
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Discourse practices of video-oriented textual comments
Thomas Messerli and Miriam Locher have jointly edited and contributed to a special issue on “Discourse practices of video-oriented textual comments.”