BSL Corpus Project: 2 jobs

[Adam Schembri]

For informal enquiries about these positions, please contact me (Dr  
Adam Schembri at a.schembri at ucl.ac.uk).
To apply, please e-mail a completed application form, full CV and  
covering letter in one .pdf file marked as surname.pdf to vacancies at psychol.ucl.ac.uk

The application form contains a section headed 'Statement in support  
of your application'. In following the instructions for that section,  
you should ensure the information you give sets out how you satisfy  
the requirements of the person specification.

Closing date for applications is 31 October 2008. Interviews will be  
held in November.

Best,

Adam

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Adam C Schembri, PhD
Project Director, British Sign Language Corpus Project
DCAL Research Centre
University College London
49 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD United Kingdom
(voice/SMS) +44 (0)7766 242 835
http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org

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British Sign Language Corpus Project: Postgraduate/postdoctoral  
research associate (linguistics/sociolinguistics)
Funding for 2 years (REF CPRA1b)

Grade 7 Range £28,290-£30,013 + £2,649 London Allowance. Level and  
grade appointed will be dependent on qualifications, skills and  
experience as detailed in the person specification. The post will  
begin in February 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The British Sign Language Corpus Project (BSLCP) is a three year  
project (January 2008-December 2010) funded by the Economic and Social  
Research Council that aims to create a corpus (i.e., a computerised  
collection of annotated language recordings) of British Sign Language  
(BSL), and to conduct corpus-based investigations of aspects of the  
vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of BSL. The project is led by  
the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at  
University College London, with co-investigators and collaborators  
based at Heriot-Watt University ( Scotland ), Queens University  
Belfast ( Northern Ireland ) , the University of Bristol ( England ),  
the University of Wales Bangor ( Wales ) and Macquarie University  
( Australia ).

A well- organised person with a degree in a relevant area and native  
or near-native skills in BSL is required to assist the project  
director in the management of the BSL Corpus Project. Duties include  
assisting the project team with the creation and management of project  
digital video data and metadata, co-ordinating deaf community  
fieldworkers and leading on the data collection, and to be primarily  
responsible for the coding, annotation and analysis of the data for  
corpus-based studies on sociolinguistic variation and language change  
in BSL.

Further details can be found at: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra1b.htm 
  while an application form can be downloaded from at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc 
.

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British Sign Language Corpus Project: Research assistant (linguistics/ 
sociolinguistics)
Funding for 2 years 0.6 post (REF CPRA3)

Grade 6, point 26 £24,403 + £2,649 London Allowance. The post will  
begin in November 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The British Sign Language Corpus Project (BSLCP) is a three year  
project (January 2008-December 2010) funded by the Economic and Social  
Research Council that aims to create a corpus (i.e., a computerised  
collection of annotated language recordings) of British Sign Language  
(BSL), and to conduct corpus-based investigations of aspects of the  
vocabulary, grammar and sociolinguistics of BSL. The project is led by  
the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at  
University College London, with co-investigators and collaborators  
based at Heriot-Watt University ( Scotland ), Queens University  
Belfast ( Northern Ireland ) , the University of Bristol ( England ),  
the University of Wales Bangor ( Wales ) and Macquarie University  
( Australia ).

A well- organised person with a degree in a relevant area and native  
or fluent skills in BSL is required for a part-time position assisting  
the project director in the annotation of data for the BSL Corpus  
Project. Duties include assisting the project team with the creation  
and management of project digital video data and metadata, and  
contributing to the annotation and analysis of the data for corpus- 
based studies on lexical frequency, sociolinguistic variation and  
language change in BSL.

Further details can be found at: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/info/dcal_cpra3.htm 
  while an application form can be downloaded from at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/docs/download_forms/job_app.doc 
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