IAS Quirk Postdoctoral Fellowships: Languages of the Future

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IAS Quirk Postdoctoral Fellowships: Languages of the Future

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College School London

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About us UCL’s Institute of Superior Research within the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences was based in 2015. It’s primarily based on the coronary heart of UCL’s Bloomsbury campus in a collection of rooms within the South Wing. The IAS is a research-based neighborhood of students comprising colleagues and doctoral college students from throughout UCL in addition to visiting fellows and analysis collaborators/interlocutors from the UK and internationally, particularly within the world South. The IAS is dedicated to essential considering and engaged enquiry each inside and throughout standard disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and goals to offer a artistic and generative context by which to query and dislodge recurring practices and modes of thought. Particularly, within the context of a serious multi-disciplinary college, the IAS harnesses UCL’s intensive experience throughout the humanities, humanities and social sciences to research obtained knowledge, to convey the aesthetic and the political into dialogue with each other, to foster collaborative cutting-edge analysis, to determine and tackle the pressing moral and mental challenges that face us at the moment, and to confront our duties as residents of an more and more contracting and inter-connected world, exploring our place (traditionally in addition to spatially) inside it.

The IAS Quirk Postdoctoral Fellowships are funded from the beneficiant bequest of Professor the Lord Charles Randolph Quirk, 1920-2017, linguist and life peer, who started his tutorial profession as a lecturer at UCL and was Professor right here from 1960 to 1981. Professor Quirk was famend for his pioneering Survey of English Utilization, which resulted in a collection of publications that turned commonplace works of reference, each on the English language itself and on strategy the research of linguistic kind and utilization. Professor Quirk’s endowment is to help ‘humanistic scholarship’ within the fields of language and literature, broadly conceived.

Concerning the position UCL Institute of Superior Research (IAS) is looking for to nominate two one-year Quirk Postdoctoral Fellows to work on cross-disciplinary initiatives related to the theme Languages of the Future, beginning on 1 October 2024.

The 2 profitable candidates will design, analysis and write up their very own cross-disciplinary venture to discover how questions of language form human conceptions of the longer term, particularly in occasions of radical uncertainty. The 2 fellows will even act as co-convenors of a UCL analysis cluster to develop additional cross-disciplinary collaboration on this subject.

The theme of Languages of the Future arises from the work of the primary two Quirk IAS Fellows (2023-24), who concentrate on the theme Languages of the Anthropocene. Their analysis on the literary, philosophical and social histories of discourses of environmental disaster gives ample proof that the research of language in all its elements is key to understanding the present human predicament. In constructing on their work, the 2024-5 cluster pertains to questions of hierarchy and translation, particularly in relation to the politics of language. The proposed analysis cluster additionally corresponds to current strikes in each philosophy and the historical past of political thought away from ideas in the direction of languages, a course of journey that leads them to revive the observe of creating connections between philosophy, linguistics and philology that characterised Quirk’s oeuvre.

Extra details about the theme may be discovered within the job description.

About you These Fellowships are open to candidates with a accomplished PhD in a related discipline of humanistic scholarship, awarded not more than 24 months earlier than 1 October 2024. These posts are meant for just lately viva-ed PhD college students.

What we provide On the Institute of Superior Research, you’ll grow to be a significant a part of the IAS neighborhood, which contains analysis workers in addition to a vibrant group of visiting students from everywhere in the world and teachers from throughout UCL, who take part in our giant variety of multi-disciplinary analysis centres, studying teams and different initiatives.

The Quirk Postdoctoral Fellows can be supplied with mentoring and coaching by IAS tutorial workers each to develop their Languages of the Future venture and to assist them to arrange publications from their PhD, and to make a profitable transition from PhD to postdoctoral analysis. Every Fellow will perform a person venture, however they may profit from working collectively and the IAS Administrators will organize for studying teams and different joint actions as acceptable.

Our dedication to Equality, Range and Inclusion As London’s World College, we all know variety fosters creativity and innovation. We’re dedicated to equality of alternative, to being truthful and inclusive, and to being a spot the place all belong. We subsequently notably encourage functions from candidates who’re prone to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

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North West London

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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:08:05 GMT

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