CRC 1646

RTG: Integrated research training group

The CRC is committed to high-quality education for doctoral researchers and postdocs, and will provide early career researchers with an environment that allows them to fully develop their potential and thus contribute to the overall research goals of the initiative. The measures applied within project RTG focus on research subjects and methods, but also research ethics, career planning, citizen science and sustainable research data management and range from introductory events, summer schools, writing retreats and workshops to social activities fostering interdisciplinarity and international exchange.

Scholarships for visiting researchers (PhD students & postdocs)

The CRC 1646 "Linguistic Creativity in Communication" offers annual fellowships for visiting researchers (PhD students and postdocs).

In the Collaborative Research Center “Linguistics Creativity in Communication” (CRC 1646) at Bielefeld University, funded by the DFG, linguists together with colleagues from other disciplines research creative linguistic activity in everyday communication, the resulting products, and how they can spread into a larger community. The individual projects will shed light on the properties, limits, benefits of linguistic creativity and the interplay of these different aspects including its theoretical, psycholinguistic and computational modelling. Based on this, the CRC will provide a detailed description of the phenomenon, its mechanisms and processes and develop a comprehensive theory of linguistic creativity in communication, in individuals and among the collective of language users.

Send your application by 31st August, 2025 for guest stays in 2026 directly to the P.I.s of the projects (see https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/projekte/ for further information on the CRC and its research projects) with which you would like to cooperate and come to Bielefeld for a period between two weeks and up to six months to do research with us!

We look forward to receiving your short applications (letter of motivation, CV, certificates, schedule for your research project)!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our Research Training Group team (crc1646-rtg@uni-bielefeld.de).