[ecrea] Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of 
Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the Wellcome Research 
Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science scheme. The scheme offers 
postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to 
three years.

Please see the attached call for further details. If you require any 
further information or wish to discuss your application informally, 
contact the departmental Research Lead, Prof. Claire Taylor: 
(c.l.taylor /at/ liv.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.l.taylor /at/ liv.ac.uk)>

*Wellcome Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science*

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of 
Liverpool is delighted to invite applicants to the Wellcome Research 
Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science scheme, which offers 
postdoctoral positions providing salary and research expenses for up to 
three years. The department has identified key areas of activity within 
the Wellcome remit and is seeking to support applicants who contribute 
our key areas of research excellence. Our vision of research excellence 
within Modern Languages is founded on our expertise in interrogating 
transfers across cultural boundaries – be they national, social, ethnic, 
linguistic, or disciplinary in nature – in order to contribute to and 
lead research projects that work with an explicit awareness of and 
directly problematise language use beyond the Anglophone world.

The department particularly welcomes applications in the following areas:

·health-related projects in developing world contexts, with a particular 
interest in Latin America, Lusophone Africa, China or India

·disability studies in film, literature, or culture in a modern 
languages context

·multilingualism and language policy in health, with a particular 
interest in linguistic landscapes

·linguistic and cultural aspects related to the key challenges posed by 
an aging population, dementia and care for the elderly

·the creation and circulation of health-related knowledge through print 
and digital culture in a modern languages context

·the history of science and medicine in plurilingual or pluricultural 
contexts

·interpreting and translation services in health

·the cultural sociology of translation in health

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures comprises academic staff 
working across a wide range of language-based studies covering 
literature, new media, film, history, politics, culture and 
sociolinguistics. Alongside French 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/french/>, 
German 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/german/>, 
Hispanic Studies 
<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/study/spanish/>, 
Italian 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/italian/>, 
Latin American Studies 
<https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/study/latin-american-studies/> and 
Chinese <http://www.liv.ac.uk/modern-languages-and-cultures/chinese/>, 
the department also offers Film Studies 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/cultures-languages-and-area-studies/film-studies/>. The 
Department is an active participant in the School’s inter-disciplinary 
research centres, including the Centre for the Study of International 
Slavery <http://www.liv.ac.uk/csis/>, the Centre for Medieval and 
Renaissance Studies 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/research/medieval-and-renaissance-studies/> and 
the Eighteenth-Century Worlds 
<http://www.liv.ac.uk/eighteenth-century-worlds/> research centre. Since 
2010, we have been part of the School of Histories, Languages and 
Cultures <http://www.liv.ac.uk/histories-languages-and-cultures/>, one 
of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

*Application Procedure and Deadlines*

Interested candidates should submit by *Friday 25 May 2018 *an 
expression of interest using the proforma from the Wellcome Trust to 
Prof. Claire Taylor: (c.l.taylor /at/ liv.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.l.taylor /at/ liv.ac.uk)>.

Applicants will be informed by Friday 4 June if their application is to 
be supported by the department.

Finalized applications must be submitted to the Wellcome Trust by 6 July 
using the Wellcome Trust application form available at:

https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/research-fellowships-humanities-and-social-science

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