Chair in Corpus Linguistics for 'Language at Leeds', University of Leeds

[Cecile De Cat]

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 (see
www.universityofleedschairs.co.uk).

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 http://www.universityofleedschairs.co.uk/mlc-corpus-linguistics.php
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, Telephone: +44(0)113 343 3631, E-mail:
c.e.honess at leeds.ac.uk.

Deadline for receipt of applications: 2 March 2012

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).

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