27.4590, Support: Dutch; English; Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics, PhD

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Subject: 27.4590, Support:  Dutch; English; Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics, PhD

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:55:08
From: Sarah Van Hoof [sarah.vanhoof at ugent.be]
Subject: Dutch; English; Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics, PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Ghent University 
Department: Translation, Interpreting & Communication 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                      English (eng) 

Description:

MULTIPLES (Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in
Society) seeks to recruit a PhD candidate to work on a project titled
“Language and employability. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the activation
of migrant job seekers in Flanders”, financed by the Special Research Fund at
Ghent University.

Project description:

The research is situated in the domain of sociolinguistics. The project
proposes an ethnographic analysis of the activation trajectories in which
migrant job seekers are inserted in Flemish Belgium. The project’s goal is to
acquire insight in the role of language in the different stages of these
trajectories, focusing on the relation between small-scale interactional
practices, policy requirements and public macro-discourses on integration,
linguistic diversity and work. The project will analyze the implementation of
language policies in daily institutional practice, the logics that underpin
these policies, the ways in which counselors, teachers and job seekers
negotiate these policies, and the eventual outcomes of these policies for the
different actors involved. Data will be collected through conducting
participant observation in the Flemish employment agency and its partner
organizations, interviewing counselors, teachers and job seekers and
collecting policy documents.

Your profile:

- Master’s degree in linguistics, communication, anthropology or a related
discipline, obtained with good grades before the start of the project
- Good social and communicative skills
- Capacity for independent research
- Willingness to carry out ethnographic fieldwork 
- Excellent competence in Dutch
- Good academic skills in English

Your tasks:

- Collecting and analyzing ethnographic data
- Preparing a PhD on the basis of the project
- Preparing individual and joint publications for national and international
scientific journals
- Presenting the research at national and international conferences

We offer: a 48-month PhD position at Ghent University (research centre
MULTIPLES & department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication),
starting 1 January 2017. 

How to apply:

Applicants must submit the following documents:

- A motivation letter, curriculum vitae and copy of the master’s degree,
merged into one PDF document
- A piece of writing (e.g. a student paper) in English or in Dutch which
demonstrates the applicant’s academic competences

Applications are to be sent by e-mail to prof. dr. Sarah Van Hoof
(sarah.vanhoof at ugent.be). The deadline for application is 5 December 2016,
23:59 (CET).

Application Deadline: 05-Dec-2016 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Sarah Van Hoof
	sarah.vanhoof at ugent.be 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr. Sarah Van Hoof
	Dept: Translation, Interpreting & Communication
	Email: sarah.vanhoof at ugent.be  

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