Research Assistant â Corpus Linguistics (EHA1949-1020)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

You will be proactive, comfortable working independently and have practical experience in searching databases (e.g., ProQuest or LexisNexis). You will also be competent in the use of corpus-linguistics and relevant tools (Wmatrix, CLAWS, SketchEngine, WordSketch, Treetagger). You will possess excellent communication skills and have experienced success in high-quality peer-reviewed academic publication. 

About the Role

You will join a stimulating research environment with interdisciplinary approaches and provide quality research support on a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant-funded research project, ‘Implicit attitudes towards autism in the British press’. You will investigate how the British press uses language to portray autism. You will develop a corpus of articles and text from the press that refer to autism and autistic people and perform appropriate corpus-linguistics analysis to address the project’s research questions.

 Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 23 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday and University closure days per annum, pro rata. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

 You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

 The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

 The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

 Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Dr Themis Karaminis, themis.karaminis@edgehill.ac.uk 

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Please attach your CV to your application.

Closing Date: 02 Nov 2020
Category: Support