The National Graduate School of Early Languages and Digital Philology (DigPhil) is a national graduate school, coordinated by the Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University, in collaboration with Lund University and Stockholm University. Its organizational structure. It will establish a cutting-edge doctoral research environment that combines the study of early languages – from pre-historical and ancient to early modern languages and their varieties up to the eighteenth century – with advancements in language technology. Our goal is to educate a new generation of philologists, grounded in the rich history of their discipline while possessing a strong proficiency in language technology. DigPhil is made possible thanks to financial support from the Swedish Research Council, 2023-27 (VR 2022-06343).
Doctoral positions are available at all three participating universities – Lund University, Stockholm University, and Uppsala University.
Stockholm University has 3 positions in Baltic languages, Classics, Linguistics (Computational linguistics profile), Scandinavian languages, Romance languages (with a French or Italian specialisation), or German.
The graduate school's working language is English, while the university's working language is Swedish (certain activities and research seminars may be in English or other languages depending on the postgraduate subject).