28.3205, Jobs: Papuan Languages; Amazonian Languages; Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University

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Subject: 28.3205, Jobs: Papuan Languages; Amazonian Languages; Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:54:28
From: Alexandra Aikhenvald [Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au]
Subject: Papuan Languages; Amazonian Languages; Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation: Post Doctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

 
University or Organization: James Cook University 
Department: Language and Culture Research Centre
Job Location: Cairns, Qld, Australia 
Web Address: http://research.jcu.edu.au/lcrc
Job Title: Research Fellow
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Papuan languages, Amazonian languages


Description:

Position Overview

The Research Fellow works within the Language and Culture Research Centre
(LCRC), James Cook University, under the leadership of the Directors of the
Centre.  The incumbent conducts research for the Australian Research Council
Laureate project ‘How Gender Shapes the World’ and the Australian Research
Council Discovery Project 'The integration of language and society, which
produces a comprehensive grammar of a language from Papua New Guinea or from
the Amazonian region of South America, based on extensive immersion fieldwork,
focusing on linguistic diversity and its origins. 

The Research Fellow, Language and Culture Research Centre (LCRC) will play a
critical role within the College of Arts, Society and Education located in the
Division of Tropical Environments & Societies. This is a fixed-term, full-time
position of 36.25 hours per week ideally starting on 1  January 2018 until 
January 2020, located at the Cairns campus. 

Classified as Academic Level B the remuneration ranges from $89,859 to
$106,029, per annum plus 17.0% employer contributed superannuation

Selection Criteria:
 
Essential:

- Doctoral qualification in descriptive linguistics, in terms of basic
linguistic theory.
- Demonstrated experience in linguistics, with special reference to language
description, general linguistics and linguistic typology.
- Demonstrated ability to work, under direction, as a member of a research
team.
- Demonstrated ability to work to a timetable, and produce results on time.
- Demonstrated ability and commitment to disseminate the results of research
in high quality publications within agreed timeframes; evidence of high level
written, oral and interpersonal communication skills to diverse audiences.

Desirable:

- Demonstrated experience in producing a language description, preferably (a)
a language for which there had previously been no good description; and (b) a
language other than that of which they are a native speaker.
- Training in anthropology.

The advertisement and the Application guide can be found at the  jobs at jcu
website linked below (vacancy 16096).



Application Deadline: 20-Aug-2017 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jcu.edu.au/careers-at-jcu/vacancies 
Contact Information:
	Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald 
	Email: Alexandra.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au 
	Phone: 61400305315 


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