<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; ">For informal enquiries about these positions, please contact me (Dr Adam Schembri at <a href="mailto:a.schembri@ucl.ac.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">a.schembri@ucl.ac.uk</a>).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">To apply, please e-mail a completed application form, full CV and covering letter in one .pdf file marked as surname.pdf to <a href="http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/vacancies@psychol.ucl.ac.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">vacancies@psychol.ucl.ac.uk</a></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">The application form contains a section headed 'Statement in support of your application'. In following the instructions for that section, you should ensure the information you give sets out how you satisfy the requirements of the person specification.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Closing date for applications is 31 October 2008<strong>. </strong>Interviews will be held in November.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Best,</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Adam</p></span><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>---</div><div>Adam C Schembri, PhD</div><div>Project Director, British Sign Language Corpus Project</div><div>DCAL Research Centre</div><div>University College London </div><div>49 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD United Kingdom</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">(voice/SMS) +44 (0)7766 242 835</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html">http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html</a></div></div><div><a href="http://www.bslcorpusproject.org">www.bslcorpusproject.org</a></div><div><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; "><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; ">--------------------------------------------------</h1><h1 style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; "><strong>British Sign Language Corpus Project: Postgraduate/postdoctoral research associate (linguistics/sociolinguistics)</strong></h1><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Funding for 2 years (REF CPRA1b)</strong></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Grade 7 Range £28,290-£30,013 + £2,649 London Allowance. Level and grade appointed will be dependent on qualifications, skills and experience as detailed in the person specification. The post will begin in February 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">The British Sign Language Corpus Project (BSLCP) is a three year project (January 2008-December 2010) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council that aims to create a corpus (i.e., a computerised collection of annotated language recordings) of British Sign Language (BSL), and to conduct corpus-based investigations of aspects of the vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of BSL. The project is led by the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at University College London, with co-investigators and collaborators based at Heriot-Watt University ( Scotland ), Queens University Belfast ( Northern Ireland ) , the University of Bristol ( England ), the University of Wales Bangor ( Wales ) and Macquarie University ( Australia ).</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">A well- organised person with a degree in a relevant area and native or near-native skills in BSL is required to assist the project director in the management of the BSL Corpus Project. Duties include assisting the project team with the creation and management of project digital video data and metadata, co-ordinating deaf community fieldworkers and leading on the data collection, and to be primarily responsible for the coding, annotation and analysis of the data for corpus-based studies on sociolinguistic variation and language change in BSL.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Further details can be found at: <a href="http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra1b.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra1b.htm</a> while an application form can be downloaded from at <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">--------------------------------------------------</span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11pt; "><strong>British Sign Language Corpus Project: Research assistant (linguistics/sociolinguistics)</strong></h1><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Funding for 2 years 0.6 post (REF CPRA3)</strong></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Grade 6, point 26 £24,403 + £2,649 London Allowance. The post will begin in November 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">The British Sign Language Corpus Project (BSLCP) is a three year project (January 2008-December 2010) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council that aims to create a corpus (i.e., a computerised collection of annotated language recordings) of British Sign Language (BSL), and to conduct corpus-based investigations of aspects of the vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of BSL. The project is led by the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at University College London, with co-investigators and collaborators based at Heriot-Watt University ( Scotland ), Queens University Belfast ( Northern Ireland ) , the University of Bristol ( England ), the University of Wales Bangor ( Wales ) and Macquarie University ( Australia ).</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">A well- organised person with a degree in a relevant area and native or fluent skills in BSL is required for a part-time position assisting the project director in the annotation of data for the BSL Corpus Project. Duties include assisting the project team with the creation and management of project digital video data and metadata, and contributing to the annotation and analysis of the data for corpus-based studies on lexical frequency, sociolinguistic variation and language change in BSL.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; ">Further details can be found at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra1b.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra3.htm</a> while an application form can be downloaded from at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc</a>.</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; "><br></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; "><br></p><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; font-size: 8pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><h3 align="left" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; font-size: 9pt; "><br></h3></span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></body></html>