23.566, Jobs: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Chair, University of Leeds

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Subject: 23.566, Jobs: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Chair, University of Leeds

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Date: 02-Feb-2012
From: Claire Honess [c.e.honess at leeds.ac.uk]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Chair, University of Leeds, United Kingdom


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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:14:50
From: Claire Honess [c.e.honess at leeds.ac.uk]
Subject: Text/Corpus Linguistics: Chair, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

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University or Organization: University of Leeds 
Department: School of Modern Languages & Cultures
Job Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.universityofleedschairs.co.uk
Job Rank: Chair of Department  

Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is seeking an exceptional 
individual who combines internationally leading research and innovation 
with an outstanding record in student education for the position of Chair in 
Corpus Linguistics, as part of a £23m investment in academic leadership at 
the University of Leeds. 

This new appointment, located in the School of Modern Languages and 
Cultures, will lead and develop the new Faculty-based strategic 
Language at Leeds initiative (see below) with the aim of building on 
substantial existing successes and making Leeds an international leader in 
language-related research, scholarship and teaching. The structures of this 
initiative will bring together and enhance language studies in the School 
(the largest of its kind in the country), in the Faculty (notably English 
Language) and in the wider University (including Computing). Within the 
School, this will particularly involve staff in Translation Studies, Linguistics 
and Phonetics and the Language Centre. The role will require excellent 
leadership and team skills and the ability to encourage and develop 
interdisciplinary links between the various areas represented in 
Language at Leeds.

The successful candidate will have an outstanding research record with a 
specialism within the broad of corpus linguistics, already of significant 
importance within the School. This should include an excellent track record 
in the construction and analysis of large corpora, experience with 
multilingual corpora and expertise in quantitative methods, including 
statistics. A strong commitment to interdisciplinarity should also be 
demonstrated. The Chair is expected to enhance existing research in 
corpus linguistics in the School and to foster research collaboration within 
language studies at Leeds, while also making an innovative contribution to 
related teaching on the School's undergraduate and postgraduate 
programmes.

Further information and details of the application procedure are available at 
the application URL below.

Informal inquiries about the post should be directed to: Dr Claire E. Honess, 
Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of 
Leeds, UK.

Language at Leeds

Language at Leeds is a recently articulated initiative that brings together the 
study of language, both in terms of teaching and research. Within this, the 
Language at Leeds Research Hub aims to link up existing research groups 
from the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health, and 
Education and provide them with (i) a coherent outward-facing identity with 
the potential to make Leeds an internationally recognised centre of 
excellence for the study of language, (ii) centralised research support 
(within the Faculty of Arts) to better enable the incremental growth of 
expertise, (iii) the infrastructure necessary to enable more and better inter-
disciplinary research.

The Chair will be expected to develop further the Language at Leeds 
Research Hub within the proposed framework and in conjunction with the 
team that defined it (comprising the research directors from Linguistics & 
Phonetics, the Centre for Translation Studies, the language group of the 
School of English, and the director of the Language, Linguistics & 
Translation research group within the School of Modern Languages and 
Cultures).


Application Deadline: 02-Mar-2012 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.universityofleedschairs.co.uk/mlc-corpus-linguistics.php 
Contact Information:
	Dr Claire Honess 
	Email: c.e.honess at leeds.ac.uk 
	Phone: +44 113 3433631 




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