<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">July 21, 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Adam Schembri <<a href="mailto:A.Schembri@BHAM.AC.UK" class="">A.Schembri@BHAM.AC.UK</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Five year postdoctoral research fellow: SignMorph project, University of Birmingham</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">July 21, 2020 at 6:51:11 AM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SignMorph) – Department of English Language and Linguistics (School of English Drama and Creative Studies), University of Birmingham, UK - 96121 - Grade 7</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class="">-</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class="">(2000027C)</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""> </span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Position Details</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">English, Drama and Creative Studies in the College of Arts and Law</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Grade 7 </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Fixed term for 5 years - Anticipated start date: January 2021</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Full time</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Closing date: August 27, 2020</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Background</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The Department of English Language and Linguistics seeks to appoint a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to work on the ERC-funded project ‘The dynamics of sign language grammar: Morphology, language change, iconicity and social structure in signing communities’ (or ‘SignMorph’) led by Dr Adam Schembri. SignMorph will focus on key aspects of sign language morphology in <b class="">(1)</b> established macro-community sign languages, <b class="">(2)</b> established micro-community sign languages, and <b class="">(3)</b> emerging sign languages. SignMorph aims to better understand similarities and differences in the grammar of sign languages, and how these are shaped by language-internal and language-external factors. The factors to be investigated in the study include <b class="">(1)</b> the role of iconicity in mapping grammatical meanings onto form, <b class="">(2)</b> the relatively recent emergence of sign languages, and how their short history has impacted on the processes which create grammatical structure, and <b class="">(3)</b> the sociolinguistic structure of signing communities,</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Main responsibilities</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Design research activities to meet the objectives of the SignMorph project</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation and research interviews</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Analyse and interpret sign language data</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Supervise students and research assistants on research related work</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Undertake management/administration arising from research</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Contribute to public engagement activities, often under supervision of a project leader</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Skills and Experience</span></b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The research fellow will have (or be near completing) a PhD in linguistics or psychology (or related fields)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">High level research skills, high level skills in British Sign Language (or another sign language) as well as a demonstrated ability to work independently </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Experience in range of different approaches to the study of sign languages is welcome (including sign language documentation, typology, corpora, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and/or experimental studies) </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">High level analytical capability</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Ability to communicate complex information clearly</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.2pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 15.2pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">For further information, please contact Adam Schembri (<a href="mailto:a.schembri@bham.ac.uk" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">a.schembri@bham.ac.uk</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Apply here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000027C&lang=en#.Xxan7P3hcr0" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); 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