job: Leadership Chair for 'Language at Leeds', University of Leeds, UK

[Cecile De Cat]

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is seeking an exceptional 
leader who combines internationally leading research and innovation with an 
outstanding record in student education for the position of Chair for 
'Language at Leeds', 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 have a subject specialism in the broad field of linguistics 
in order to 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 and Education). 
Within the School, this will particularly involve staff in Linguistics & 
Phonetics, Translation Studies and the Language Centre.

Most importantly, the successful candidate will bring substantial 
experience in academic leadership and a clear vision for how the potential 
of the Language at Leeds initiative may be realised. The role will 
therefore require outstanding leadership and team skills and the ability to 
encourage and develop interdisciplinary links between colleagues in the 
different academic areas.

The successful candidate will also have an excellent record in research and 
student education at all levels, demonstrating both a broad understanding 
of the fields of linguistics and language study in general, and an 
outstanding research record in a specialism that will complement and 
dovetail with current research within Linguistics & Phonetics and/or 
Translation studies. A strong commitment to interdisciplinarity should also 
be demonstrated. The Chair is expected to enhance existing research into 
language in the School and to foster research collaboration within language 
studies across the University, while also making an innovative contribution 
to teaching on relevant School-level undergraduate and postgraduate 
programmes and supporting cross-School scholarship activities.

Preliminary enquiries about the post should be directed to our retained 
consultancy firm, Perrett Laver on +44 (0)207 340 6200.  To download 
further particulars about the role please visit www.perrettlaver.com, 
quoting reference number 0995/8.  Deadline for receipt of applications: 
15th June 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 define 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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