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SCHOOL OF CREATIVE STUDIES AND MEDIA
Part-Time Research Officer (0.5 FTE)
Starting Salary: £29,704 (on Grade 7) p.a.
Applications are invited for the above post on a
collaborative
project between Humboldt University, Berlin and Bangor University,
titled
“What’s Hard? Structural Learning Difficulties in German”. The project
is co-funded by the AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft.
The project involves the
further development of a
learner corpus (Falko, http://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/institut/professuren/korpuslinguistik/forschung/falko) and the quantitative and qualitative evaluation
of German learner corpus data. The goal of the project is to discover
what
structural difficulties in the acquisition of German as a foreign
language can
be detected through corpus studies.
We are looking for
candidates who share the avid
interest in research found in our institutes and complement the
existing
research community.
The main responsibilities
of the post will be to
collect, transcribe/digitise, annotate and analyse conversational data,
and to
participate in the writing of research papers. The intention is to
appoint a
part-time postdoctoral candidate if possible. However, applications
from able
candidates with an MA or MSc in relevant fields who are approaching the
successful completion of a PhD degree will be considered as well. The
person appointed will be one of two researchers appointed to the
Project and
will work as part of a team.
Candidates should be
native or near-native speakers
of both German and English. They should have a post-graduate degree in
Applied
and/or Corpus Linguistics and should have experience in the collection,
transcription, annotation and analysis of linguistic data.
The
successful candidate will primarily be based at Bangor University
but for up to 7 months at the beginning of the project s/he will be
based at
the Institute for German Language and Linguistics / Corpus Linguistics,
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. The successful candidate will be
expected to commence July, 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter, and
the
post is available for a period of 36 months.
Application
forms and further particulars should be obtained by
contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: (01248)
382926/388132;
e-mail: [log in to unmask];
web:
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/corporate/vacancies/home.php.en?jobdetails=1&reference=09-8/136&category2=Academic
Please quote
reference number 09-8/136 when applying.
Closing date for applications: Friday 29th May, 2009
Informal enquiries can be
made by contacting Dr
Astrid Ensslin, e-mail: [log in to unmask],
tel. +44 (0) 1248 383619.
Committed To Equal Opportunities
Dr Astrid Ensslin
Lecturer in Digital Communication
School
of Creative Studies and Media
Bangor University
College Road
Tel: 0044-(0)1248-383619
Email: [log in to unmask]
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