Category Archives: Job Vacancies

Job: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer

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For current researchers in this area at the university you can see the Phonetics & Phonology research groups people page.
Posted date: 06-Dec-2021
Closing date: 10-Jan-2022

More Information

Full job description can be found at here.

The Role

The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) is seeking to appoint a member of staff at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level in Phonetics and Phonology. The successful applicant will be part of a diverse and collegiate team of academics, clinicians, researchers and professional support staff delivering high quality teaching and research in Speech and Language Sciences. You will have a strong background in phonetics and phonology and a strong research profile in this area. You will have expertise in practical phonetics (ear training), laboratory-based methodologies and quantitative analysis of phonetic data. You will make a significant contribution to teaching and supervision within the Speech and Language Sciences (SLS) section across both undergraduate and post graduate pre-registration speech and language therapy Health and Care Professions Council approved programmes, as well the IPhD in Phonetics and Phonology. You will carry out high quality research in the area of phonetics and/or laboratory phonology, contribute to the profile and to the research culture of the Phonetics and Phonology Research Group, the School and the relevant research centres and institutes across campus. You will, where appropriate, make a contribution to administration within the School.

Qualifications

Essential:  
PhD in linguistics, speech and language sciences or related discipline, with focus on phonetics and phonology

Desirable:
Recognised HE teaching qualification

The University and the Department

Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

The University holds a silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. The University also holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to support the career development of our researchers, and is a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) is an inter-disciplinary school with staff and students working in the fields of Speech and Language Sciences, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Communication and Education. Researchers in the school employ a variety of experimental methods including audio-visual, acoustic, and articulatory speech analysis, eye tracking, psycholinguistic experiments, and language learning paradigms and platforms.

Contact

Any informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Janet Webster, Head of Speech and Language Sciences (janet.webster@ncl.ac.uk), or Professor Ghada Khattab (ghada.khattab@ncl.ac.uk). 

Job: Research Assistant (Laboratory Manager)

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For current researchers in this area at the university you can see the Phonetics & Phonology research groups people page.
Posted date: 23-Nov-2021
Closing date: 7-Dec-2021

More Information

Full job description can be found at here.

The Role

The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) seeks you for the position of Research Assistant (Laboratory Manager). You will support the research of academic staff and students in experimental and laboratory projects which take place in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences and across the faculty. This includes support for one of more of the following co-located labs:

  1. A psycholinguistics lab with an eyetracker and a range of software programs for behavioural experiments and audio-visual transcription and editing facilities (e.g. EyeLink, Eprime, Labvanced, Gorilla, Adobe Editing Suite, ELAN, PRAAT etc.)
  2. A phonetics lab with:
    • audio-visual recording facilities, including an anechoic chamber, edirol recorders for high quality auditory recordings for acoustic analysis and camcorders for video recordings.
    • articulatory recording facilities, including ultrasound tongue imaging, electropalatography, electro-glottography, and nasometry.

The University and the Department

Newcastle University is committed to being a fully inclusive Global University which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from everybody, regardless of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital status/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, as well as being open to flexible working practices.

The University holds a silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. The University also holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to support the career development of our researchers, and is a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.

The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) is an inter-disciplinary school with staff and students working in the fields of Speech and Language Sciences, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Communication and Education. Researchers in the school employ a variety of experimental methods including audio-visual, acoustic, and articulatory speech analysis, eye tracking, psycholinguistic experiments, and language learning paradigms and platforms.

Contact

Please apply from the university website. For informal enquires, please contact professor Ghada Khattab ghada.khattab@newcastle.ac.uk.

Job: Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology

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Newcastle University’s School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics is looking to appoint a full-time lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology.

For current researchers in this area at the university you can see the Phonetics & Phonology research groups people page.

More Information

Full job description can be found at jobs.ac.uk or jobs.ncl.ac.uk

The Role

You will have a completed PhD in Linguistics or English Language, and have experience in teaching the phonetics and phonology of English and other languages at undergraduate level. Proficiency in the collection, analysis and handling of empirical language data in English and other languages is essential. Also essential is the ability to teach and research in one or more of these additional strengths of the Language and Linguistics subject group: language acquisition and evolution, language and cognition, language variation and change, syntax. You will have an excellent publication record for your career stage. You should also be able to demonstrate clear potential for making a significant contribution to the School’s and Faculty’s collaborative teaching and research culture, which includes a capacity for academic and societal impacts.

The Department

The School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics (SELLL) currently has 64 members of academic staff (55FT and 9PT) working across the fields of English Language, Linguistics, English Literature and Creative Writing. 13 Research Associates and Fellows work alongside these staff. Together with our 750 undergraduates and over 200 postgraduates (registered on both taught and research programmes), we form a thriving, highly motivated intellectual community, dedicated to excellence and innovation in teaching and research. Over 80% of our research was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, and our teaching was rated as ‘excellent’ in the last QAA audit.

The Language and Linguistics subject group in SELLL has particular research and teaching strengths in: linguistic theory; language acquisition, evolution and development; language and cognition; and language variation and change. Funded projects over the past few years have addressed issues across these sub-disciplines, including topical research on language, migration and identity and work on language learning by immigrant adults. Considerable funding has been attracted for research into and the development of a ‘big data’ corpus of North Eastern English. Funding has been won too for research in language and cognition as well as in formal linguistics, most recently through a project with colleagues at Cambridge on novel approaches to parametric variation in syntax. In addition to the wide range of undergraduate teaching and learning offered by the Language and Linguistics subject group in SELLL, the group also lead the MA in Linguistics and IPhD in English Language and Linguistics. We have had considerable success too in supporting PGR student research via the UKRI funded doctoral training partnerships known as ‘Northern Bridge’ and ‘NINE’. Newcastle University also has a very active Phonetics and Phonology research group, and a very well-resourced Linguistics Laboratory supporting experimental and quantitative linguistics research.

Contact

Professor Jo Robinson, Head of School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (Jo.Robinson2[at]newcastle.ac.uk), or Dr Heike Pichler, Head of the Language and Linguistics subject group (Heike.Pichler[at]newcastle.ac.uk).

Job Alert: Research Associate for Project on Tyneside English

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Dr Sophie Meekings is looking for a Research Associate to work with her for five months.

Closing Date: 06/02/2020

Role

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics wishes to appoint a Research Associate in Linguistics. You will be responsible for the project management and completion of an experiment on the sociolinguistics of speech production in noise with Tyneside English speakers. With support from the project PIs and mentors, you will be responsible for recruiting participants, collecting and analysing data, and may also be involved with the writing up of the findings for publication. While experience in data analysis and experimental linguistics is highly desirable, some training can be provided in these areas.

You will have proven experience in collecting experimental data. Experience in recruiting adult research participants in Newcastle and the wider Tyneside area, and/or strong social ties to the Newcastle and Tyneside area are highly desirable.  Previous experience in behavioural experiments, and some linguistics background is essential. Experience conducting auditory analysis of linguistic variables (e.g., using Praat) is desirable.

This is a full-time, fixed term post available for the duration of five months.

Key Accountabilities

  • Piloting: Test and troubleshoot existing experimental software in preparation for data collection, including becoming familiar with best use of phonology lab recording equipment, and running pilot studies to test experimental pipeline and develop recruitment strategies.
  • Recruitment: Recruit 30-50 native Newcastle/Tyneside speakers.
  • Testing. Collect data from recruited participants  (including collecting consent forms, participant briefing/debriefing and subject supervision during participation)
  • Analysis: In collaboration with other members of the research team, you will be expected to transcribe recordings, hand-code phonetic variables, and analyse data in R.

Salary

£30,942.00 – £40,323.00

Further Information

The full job description, including essential and desirable skills, can be found on Newcastle University Job Vacancies. Please submit your application there.

Informal inquiries about this role can be directed to Dr Sophie Meekings (sophie.meekings@ncl.ac.uk).

We’re Hiring! Professor of Linguistics

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Many of you will know that long-standing Newcastle phonologist, SJ Hannahs, retired in January last year. However, it’s not all bad news, the School of English are hiring for a Professor of Linguistics.

Closing Date: 12/02/2020
Interview Date: 26/03/2020

More information (including Candidate Information Pack):
https://jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastle-Professor-of-Linguistics/578398401/
Informal enquiries:
Professor James Annesley (Head of School james.annesley@ncl.ac.uk) OR
Dr Geoff Poole (Head of the Language & Linguistics Subject Group geoffrey.poole@ncl.ac.uk)

The School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics at Newcastle University seeks to appoint an outstanding researcher and teacher to the post of Professor of Linguistics. The appointee will make a major contribution to research and learning & teaching in Language and Linguistics, and provide strategic leadership for the Language and Linguistics Subject Group.

We invite applications from individuals with an outstanding record in research (including outputs, external grant income, and PhD supervision), successful research and academic leadership experience, an established international reputation, and a record of excellence in teaching and impact.

The School welcomes applications from specialists in any field of language and linguistics who can contribute to and enhance the existing strengths of the Language and Linguistics Subject Group in the School. We particularly encourage candidates with a collaborative orientation whose expertise connects with diverse sub-disciplines of Language and Linguistics.

Lecturer Position in Phonetics & Phonology

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The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics wishes to appoint an outstanding scholar and teacher as a Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology.

Deadline – 7th July 2019

Candidate

You will have a PhD, either in hand or near completion, in Linguistics or English Language, and have undergraduate teaching experience in these areas. The ability to analyse experimental results from the perspective of linguistic theory is essential, as is knowledge of variation in English and quantitative methods.
We particularly encourage candidates with a collaborative bent, who can envision themselves working with theoreticians and experimentalists in a variety of disciplines, and who can situate their research on language in the wider study of cognition and/or other social science and scientific fields.
Applicants will have an excellent publication record for their career stage and will demonstrate the clear potential to make a significant contribution to the School’s research and teaching culture.

Contact

For further inquiries please contact Dr Geoff Poole, Head of the Language/Linguistics Subject Area (Geoffrey.Poole@newcastle.ac.uk) or Dr James Annesley, Head of School (James.Annesley@newcastle.ac.uk).

Further information can be found here or on LinguistList .

Salary

£30,395 – £43,266 per annum (Grade F Lecturer)
£40,792 – £54,765 per annum (Grade G Lecturer)

Teaching Fellow Position in Phonology

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The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics wishes to appoint an outstanding scholar and teacher as a full-time teaching fellow in phonology for 12 months fixed-term, to start 15th January 2019.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BOG623/teaching-fellow-in-phonology-b172223a

Candidate

You will have a PhD, either in hand or near completion, in a relevant subject area and proven experience in undergraduate teaching of phonetics and phonological theory. Experience in a further sub-field, such as sociolinguistics or English historical linguistics, or a familiarity with quantitative methods would be an advantage. We would expect evidence of active engagement in the research in your subject area, in the form of publications appropriate to the stage of your career.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to Stage 1 modules in phonetics, phonology and morphology, as well as honours-level modules in phonological theory and other areas of their expertise. Lecturing staff, in addition, participate in the School’s thriving postgraduate culture by teaching on MA programmes as well as the IPhD programme in Phonetics and Phonology and supervising PhD students.

Newcastle University

The University holds a silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality, and the School is one of only very few units in our subject area in the UK to hold a Bronze award in its own right. The University also holds the HR Excellence in Research award for our work to support the career development of our researchers. We are also a member of the Euraxess network.

Contact Information

Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Geoff Poole, Head of the School’s Language/Linguistics Subject Group: Geoffrey.Poole@ncl.ac.uk or Dr James Annesley, Head of School, James.Annesley@ncl.ac.uk.

Applications can only be accepted through the Newcastle University Job Vacancy website, https://vacancies.ncl.ac.uk/LoginV2.aspx
Contact Dr James Annesley James.Annesley@ncl.ac.uk

Application Deadline: 25 November 2018

PhD Studentships

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Applications are invited for PhD studentships in linguistics and speech sciences at Newcastle University. We encourage applicants who are interested in all aspects of speech perception, production and learning. Studentships, to start in October 2019, will be awarded via open competition for two doctoral training partnerships:

  • AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium, deadline Wednesday 9th January 2019.
  • ESRC Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NINEDTP), deadline Friday 18th January 2019.

Please contact the following supervisors if you are interested in their broad research areas:

Ghada Khattab

ghada.khattab[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition, accent/dialect acquisition, L2 phonology, and bilingualism and cognition.
For more details, see:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/staff/profil/ghadakhattab.html#research

Jalal Al-Tamimi

jalal.al-Tamimi[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: L1/L2 phonology, speech production and perception, laboratory phonology, speech classification and recognition.
For more details, see:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/jalalal-tamimi.html#research

Laurence White

laurence.white[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Prosody in speech perception and production, first and second language acquisition, developmental and acquired language disorders. For more details, see:
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/laurencewhite.html#research

Danielle Turton

Danielle.Turton[at]newcastle.ac.uk
PhD supervision interests: Phonological variation, diachronic phonology, language variation and change, ultrasound tongue imaging, phonetics-phonology interface, laboratory phonology.
For more details, see: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/danielleturton.html#research

The AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium for Doctoral Training Partnership

(NBCDTP) offers tuition fees and £14,777 per annum funding for 42 months (http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/). Award-holders may extend their studentship to pursue an approved research training programme or to undertake a placement by a further 6 months, and successful applicants can apply for additional funding during their studentship to support their research costs and individual training needs. In addition to the standard PhD pathway, students can apply under the collaborative doctoral pathway, through which applicants develop a research project in collaboration with a partner organisation, and spend a substantial portion of their doctoral study at the partner organisation.

The ESRC Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership

(NINEDTP) offer +3, +3.5, 1+3 and, for Language Based Area Studies only, 2+3 awards (https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/). The awards cover tuition fees and a stipend of £14,770 per year for the duration of the degree. Award-holders may also apply for research training support grants, internships and placements, and overseas fieldwork and difficult language training, as well as overseas institutional visits. However, these need to be laid out clearly at the application stage and are considered on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the standard PhD pathway, students can apply under the collaborative doctoral pathway, through which applicants develop a research project in collaboration with a partner organisation.

Postdoc Position at University of Lisbon

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Postdoc position in experimental research on language development

Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral position in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon.

The postdoctoral fellow will work in the Phonetics and Phonology lab and the Lisbon Baby Lab (http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/babylab/ ) with Prof. Sonia Frota and her team on projects relating to early language development in typical, at-risk, and impaired populations. Primary duties include active engagement in the projects and the lab’s research, including knowledge transfer and training and knowledge dissemination, designing and conducting experiments, preparing findings for publication and oral presentation, laboratory management, and working with graduate and undergraduate students. Salary will be in accordance with the Portuguese Science Foundation salary scale, specifically €1495 per month (net) (http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores), plus supplemental insurances. Financial support for travelling/settling is provided for researchers from outside Portugal (in the amount of €1000). The post is available for 10 months, eventually renewed until the end of the project should it be extended. The successful candidate is expected to start January 1, 2019.

The Phonetics and Phonology lab and the Lisbon Baby Lab are part of the Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon. The lab’s facilities include SMI RED500 and SR Research EyeLink 1000 eye trackers and a Neuroscan 64 channel EEG with the Quik cap system. The lab works with a network of collaborating partners within and outside academia (e.g., Psychology School, Medical School, hospitals, private associations, nurseries). The postdoctoral fellow will also benefit from and participate in the Annual Summer Training in Experimental Methods organised by the lab (http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/summerschool/2018/en/ ).

Qualifications:

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field, such as neurolinguistics, language acquisition, psychology, or cognitive neuroscience, and previous experience in experimental research in language perception and language processing. Good knowledge of at least some of the experimental paradigms used with EEG/ERP and/or Eye-tracking and their implementation, as well as of data extraction routines and analysis, is required. Previous experience in infant speech perception research or research with clinical populations is desirable. A background in statistics, applied mathematics, or programming skills will be a plus. Proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of Portuguese or of other Romance language (e.g., Catalan, Spanish, Italian, French) is an advantage.

To Apply:

Please e-mail your CV, a motivation letter (max. 2 pages), a copy of your personal identity document, of your PhD certificate and of your PhD thesis, together with one representative publication and names and contact details of two referees, to labfon@letras.ulisboa.pt and sfrota@campus.ul.pt

Closing date: November 23, 2018

Contact Name: Prof. Sonia Frota

More details available at http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=105433