Two PhD positions in sign language linguistics are announced at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. The PhD projects are part of a larger project investigating the structure of size and shape expressions in sign languages and co-speech gesture in West Africa and the United States. Goal of the project is to further our understanding of how sign languages relate to gesture.
The call for PhD candidates can be found here:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/phd-posities/17-387-phd-candidates-in-the-field-of-linguistics.html
More information on the projects can be found here:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/from-gesture-to-language1

Deadline for applications is October 15 2017.