With apologies for cross-posting, please see the call below for applicants across a range of modern languages-related themes and topics:

Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science, which offers postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to three years. The department has identified key areas of activity within the Wellcome remit and is seeking to support applicants who contribute to these areas of our research excellence. Our vision  for research within Modern Languages is founded on our expertise in interrogating transfers across cultural boundaries – be they national, social, ethnic, linguistic, or disciplinary in nature – in order to contribute to and lead research projects that work with an explicit awareness of and directly problematise language use beyond the Anglophone world.

The department particularly welcomes applications in the following areas:

• health-related projects in developing world contexts, with a particular interest in Latin America, Lusophone Africa, China or India
• disability studies in film, literature, or culture in a modern languages context
• multilingualism and language policy in health, with a particular interest in linguistic landscapes
• linguistic and cultural aspects related to the key challenges posed by an aging population, dementia and care for the elderly
• the creation and circulation of health-related knowledge through print and digital culture in a modern languages context
• the history of science and medicine in plurilingual or pluricultural contexts
• interpreting and translation services in health
• the cultural sociology of translation in health

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures comprises academic staff working across a wide range of language-based studies covering literature, new media, film, history, politics, culture and sociolinguistics. Alongside French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Latin American Studies and Chinese, the department also offers Film Studies. The Department is an active participant in the School’s inter-disciplinary research centres, including the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre. Since 2010, we have been part of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Application Procedure and Deadlines

• Interested candidates should submit by Friday 25 May 2018 an expression of interest using the proforma from the Wellcome Trust to Prof. Claire Taylor: [log in to unmask].
• Applicants will be informed by Friday 4 June if their application is to be supported by the department.
• Finalized applications must be submitted to the Wellcome Trust by 6 July using the Wellcome Trust application form available at: https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/research-fellowships-humanities-and-social-science