Research Fellow, Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

School/Section
- Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
- Division
- Unspecified
- Staff Category
- Research
- Position Type
- Full Time
- Grade
- Grade 6
- Salary
- £38,249 - £45,413
- Ref No
- LAN143R
- Closing Date
- 26-MAY-2025

We are recruiting a Research Fellow on the AHRC-DFG funded project QuBiSM: Questions, Bias, Multimodality - Negotiating Meaning in Interaction. The position is funded for 24 months, with a latest start date of 1 August 2025.
- Corpus analysis of prosody and gesture of negative questions in German speech corpora
- Statistical analysis and theoretical evaluation of the findings
- Publication of the results in peer-reviewed journals
- Travel (conferences, 6 monthly team meetings in person)
- Multimodal production of negative questions by English adults (audio & video)
- Pragmatic judgements of negative questions (written & audio) by English adults (online surveys)
- English language skills at (near) native level
- Experience in phonetics/laboratory phonology research
- A working knowledge of German language skills to CEFR B1 or B2 is also essential
- Desirable: experience in gesture research and/or pragmatics, German language skills to (near) native level.

Salary will be at the appropriate point on Grade 6, £38,249- £45,413 per annum with placement according to qualifications and experience.

Should you require a visa to undertake employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be guaranteed a Certificate of Sponsorship under the requirements of the Skilled Worker visa. At the time an offer of appointment is made you will be asked to demonstrate that you fulfill the criteria in respect of qualification and competency in English. For research and academic posts we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa.

Job Reference Number: LAN143R

The School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture embraces a diverse working environment and recognises the many benefits this can bring. Applications from individuals from across all of the equality protected characteristics are encouraged.

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