Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Sciences

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 scheme, 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 our key areas of research excellence. Our vision of research excellence 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 23 November 2018 an expression of interest using the proforma from the Wellcome Trust to [log in to unmask].

 

Applicants will be informed by Friday 30 November if their application is to be supported by the department.

Finalized applications must be submitted to the Wellcome Trust by 11 January 2019 using the Wellcome Trust application form available at: https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/research-fellowships-humanities-and-social-science  

 

 

 

Dr Marieke Riethof | Lecturer in Latin American Politics | Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

University of Liverpool | 1-7 Abercromby Square | Liverpool, L69 7WY | UK | Twitter: @mariekeriethof

 

Director of Postgraduate Research (Recruitment & Admissions) | ESRC & AHRC Pathway Lead for Language-Based Area Studies, Modern Languages & Translation

 

New book: Labour Mobilization, Politics and Globalization in Brazil: Between Militancy and Moderation (Palgrave 2018).

 

 

In the media:

* Why Brazil’s political crisis matters for Latin American Democracy (Global Observatory/International Peace Institute)

* Dilma Rousseff, two views of democracy, and the battle for Brazil’s future (The Conversation)