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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">DCAL at University College London (UCL) invites applications for a Lecturer in the field of deafness, cognition and language.  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Applicants from a broad range of relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply, including (but not limited to) psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psycholinguistics, sociology,
 sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, education, interpreting, speech and language therapy, language development, language sciences, anthropology and deaf studies.  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">The successful applicant will contribute to the goal of strengthening DCAL’s position as a centre of research and teaching excellence in the field.  They will have a strong track record, commensurate with experience,
 of academic publications in the field and of obtaining research grant funding. The successful applicant will be expected to establish wide-ranging collaborations within UCL and beyond.
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">The new appointee will be expected to contribute to DCAL’s overarching research question of how sensory and language experience shapes language structure, language use, language acquisition, social interaction,
 identity and linguistic and cognitive processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">The appointee must have a PhD in a relevant discipline and be fluent in British Sign Language (BSL) or another sign language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="color:black">DCAL</span></b><span style="color:black"> (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal"><span style="color:#954F72">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal</span></a>), the leading research centre in the field of Deafness, Cognition
 and Language in Europe, is a bilingual centre which brings together leading deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"> </span><span style="color:black">DCAL is part of the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci"><span style="color:#954F72">www.ucl.ac.uk/pals</span></a>)
 (PALS), the top-rated centre for research in psychology in the UK (see <a href="http://www.ref.ac.uk/">
<span style="color:#954F72">www.ref.ac.uk</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">UCL particularly welcomes applications from women, non-binary, LBGTQI+ and minority ethnic groups, as they are currently under-represented within UCL at these levels.  DCAL also particularly encourages applications
 from deaf and disabled people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Mairéad MacSweeney, DCAL Director,
</span><span style="color:#954F72">m.macsweeney@ucl.ac.uk</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="color:black">Closing date:</span></b><span style="color:black"> 20 May 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="color:black">For more information and to apply:</span></b><span style="color:black">
<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/lecturer-position-dcal-2021">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/lecturer-position-dcal-2021</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:black">(Apologies for crossposting!)</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kearsy Cormier, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor of Sign Linguistics (UCL Linguistics & DCAL) |  Deputy Director (DCAL)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL)  |  University College London  |  49 Gordon Square  |  London WC1H 0PD  |  Phone: +44 (0)20 7679 8674 (x28674)
  |  kearsy.com  |   Twitter: @kearsycormier | Strand Coordinator, UCL MSc in Language Sciences (Sign Language and Deaf Studies)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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