Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme, which offers postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to three years. These awards aim to provide career development opportunities for early career
researchers (less than five years since their doctoral viva) who have a proven record of research but have not held a full-time permanent academic post in the UK. They enable Fellows to undertake a significant piece of publishable work and should lead to a
more permanent academic position. Further information, including eligibility criteria, can be found on the
Leverhulme Trust website.
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 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 the following by
Friday 30 November 2018 to [log in to unmask]
• CV (2 pages max) and a list of publications (1 page max)
• an outline (2 pages max) of the research proposal, including intended publication outputs
• 100-word abstract
• Identification of potential mentor
Applicants will be informed if their application is to be supported by the department by 6 December 2018. All shortlisted candidates will
be invited to attend a Faculty workshop on 13 December 2018, which will include presentations and advice about the scheme and give candidates the opportunity to meet with their chosen mentor.
Following the workshop, candidates will be invited to send their fully developed application outline (following the template available
on the Leverhulme Trust Grant Application System) for final peer-review and selection by the Faculty by 11th January 2019 at noon.
Selected candidates to put an application forward to the Leverhulme Trust with the University of Liverpool will be notified by 28th January
(Leverhulme deadline: 28 February).
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)