Job vacancy: Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney

[Christina Lai]

Dear all,

The School of Letters, Art and Media at the University of Sydney is currently seeking a Professor of Linguistics. Visit sydney.edu.au/positions<http://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=b78b3688-8224-1fa2-aa41-6e292c15c118&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=949319bc-8898-4f11-ac4b-9db401358504&jobsListKey=008ab159-dcc4-43d1-8201-53b4a3f> and search by the reference number 1915/1112 for more information and to apply.


PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS<http://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=b78b3688-8224-1fa2-aa41-6e292c15c118&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=949319bc-8898-4f11-ac4b-9db401358504&jobsListKey=008ab159-dcc4-43d1-8201-53b4a3f>
SCHOOL OF LETTERS, ART AND MEDIA
FACULTY OF AFTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES

The University of Sydney is Australia's first university and has an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. It employs over 7500 permanent staff supporting over 49,000 students. The University is a comprehensive institution with strengths across the broad range of academic disciplines, including medicine, public health and education.

It has recently embarked on an extensive and ambitious building programme to support research and teaching in lifestyle illnesses, nanotechnology and business studies.

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, one of 16 faculties at the University, has a proud history and tradition of intellectual rigour. It offers one of the most comprehensive and diverse range of humanities and social science studies in the Asia Pacific region, and a vibrant research and teaching environment.

The School of Letters, Art and Media is a vibrant school whose pedagogic practice, research profile and external engagements are shaped by the synergistic benefits of bringing together traditional disciplines with long intellectual histories such as art history, English and linguistics with newer sub-disciplinary or interdisciplinary formations such as media and communication and museum studies.

Linguistics is a department with a long and celebrated history at the University of Sydney. It has teaching and research strengths in analysis of media discourse, anthropological linguistics, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, cross-cultural communication, educational linguistics, functional grammar, language acquisition, phonology, syntactic theory and TESOL. It has formal affiliations with colleagues in a wide range of language programs, the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Faculty of Education and Social Work. Members of the department are active in a cross-faculty research network on language and identity.

Following recent retirements of several senior staff members, the department is currently in a period of revitalisation, rebuilding its capacity through the recruitment of world-class academic staff, beginning with this professorial post. In December 2012, the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) audit, a comprehensive national research assessment exercise that measures research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review, ranked the linguistics field of research at the University of Sydney a 4, indicating research performance above world-class standard.

You will have:

*      a capacity for academic leadership in terms of the discipline

*      an internationally significant research profile in descriptive and/or theoretical linguistics

*      a strong commitment to teaching at all levels and to innovation in curriculum design and teaching practice

*      an evidence-based commitment to the professional development of academic staff

*      a favourable orientation to applied, corpus, educational and systemic functional linguistics, areas in which the department has current strength

*      the ability to contribute to securing the strategic goals of the school, faculty and University.

This is an ideal opportunity for a distinguished senior academic working in linguistics to take a leadership role in the discipline in the context of a successful and supportive school environment.

Term and remuneration
The successful applicant will be offered a continuing appointment as Professor of Linguistics. A competitive salary package will be negotiated with the successful applicant.

CLOSING DATE: 7 April 2013