British Sign Language Corpus Project: Translator/Research Associate

[Adam Schembri]

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School of Management and Languages, Heriot Watt University
BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE CORPUS PROJECT: TRANSLATOR/RESEARCH ASSOCIATE -  
REF 31/09/W
Grade/Salary 	£33,432  per annum pro rata
Closing Date 	17 April 2009

Contract negotiable, depending upon experience, qualifications and  
terms of service (see below). This post is funded on the basis of a  
0.6 fte position for 24 months.

The British Sign Language Corpus Project (BSLCP) is a three year  
project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council that aims  
to create a corpus (ie 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, experienced service-provider offering relevant  
academic qualifications and professional registration (or equivalent)  
in BSL/English translation/interpretation is required to assist the  
BSL Corpus Project team in the annotation of data for the BSL Corpus  
Project. The primary contractual responsibility will be to lead on the  
written English annotation of signed data. Further duties include  
assisting the project team with the creation and management of project  
digital video data.

This work will begin in May 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter  
and is scheduled for completion at the end of 2010. Whilst the  
position will be managed from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, the  
nature of the tasks to be undertaken makes a considerable proportion  
of remote working negotiable. Hours are flexible, and work will be  
contracted to the equivalent of a 0.6 fte position for 24 months. Job- 
sharing or agency-based, service-level arrangements may be applicable.

Further details and an application form can be found at: http://www.hw.ac.uk/hr/v_research.php

For informal enquiries about the post, please contact Prof Graham  
Turner (g.h.turner at hw.ac.uk). For further information about the  
project, please contact Dr Adam Schembri (a.schembri at ucl.ac.uk).

Ref: 31/09/W
Closing date: 17 April 2009



Completed application forms may be returned by e-mail to hr at hw.ac.uk  
or by post to Heriot-Watt University, Human Resources, Edinburgh EH14  
4AS;  tel. 0131 451 3475 (24 hours), Minicom 0131 451 8212.
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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 UK
www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/team/adam_schembri.html
www.bslcorpusproject.org
www.slls.eu




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