Stillingstittel:
Two Post-doctoral Research Fellowships/Researcher positions in Linguistics/Language Acquisition

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Jobbnorge ID: 127568

Ref. no.: 2016/4346

APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 1, 2016.

 

Two Post-doctoral Research Fellowships/Researcher positions within Linguistics/Language Acquisition are available in the Department of Language and Culture at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. The positions are affiliated with the LAVA research group (Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition) and are connected to the project MiMS (Micro-variation in Multilingual Acquisition & Attrition Situations), funded by the Research Council of Norway 2016-2019.

 

The appointments are fixed term positions for a period of three years.

 

A Post-doctoral Research Fellowship aims to qualify the researcher for work in senior academic positions. A candidate may not be appointed to more than one fixed term position as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the same institution.

 

For further information about the positions and the project, please contact Professor Marit Westergaard, Tel: +47 77644256, E-mail: marit.westergaard (at) uit.no.

 

Affiliation

 

The position is affiliated with the Department of Language and Culture (ISK). The Department consists of 75 permanent employees, 10 adjunct professors, and approximately 30 PhD fellows. Additionally, the Department has approximately 25 temporary research and teaching positions. The Department's core activates are research, teaching, and dissemination within linguistics, comparative literature, art history, and media and documentation studies.

 

The Department has a very active and diverse research profile. It houses one of the world's most excellent research communities in linguistics, with research groups within cognitive linguistics (CLEAR), Sami language technology (Giellatekno and Divvun), socio-linguistics (LAIDUA), language acquisition (LAVA), and theoretical linguistics (CASTL-FISH). The Department's research communities within comparative literature, art history, and media and documentation studies are nationally highly competitive, and are organised into research groups such as Health Art Society (HAS), Russian Space, and WARGAME.

 

ISK offers one-year programme education, Bachelor, and Master programmes within general linguistics, comparative literature, art history, media and documentation studies, English, French, Kven and Finish, Scandinavian, Russian, Sami, Spanish, and German. It also offers PhD education within cultural/literary studies, art history, media and documentation studies, and linguistics.

 

The LAVA research group consists of 14 active researchers, including six professors, three Professor II positions (20%), a lab manager, a postdoctoral fellow, and three PhD students. From the fall of 2016, two more PhD students will join the group. The group members are involved in a number of research projects both locally and internationally, e.g. the MiMS and DASAGO projects financed by the Research Council of Norway and the LAMBA project financed by EEA Norway grants. For further information about the group's work and activities, see the website of the LAVA research group: http://site.uit.no/lava/

 

The MiMS project has recently received funding (NOK 9 million) from the Research Council of Norway for four years, 2016-2019. The two advertised researcher/postdoc positions are connected to this proje

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Hansine Hansens veg 18 9019 TROMSØ

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Troms

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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