[ecrea] Wellcome Research Fellowships at the University of Liverpool

Please see below a call for expressions of interest for Wellcome 
Research Fellowships at the University of Liverpool. Subscibers to this 
list might be particularly interested in the  call for ‘disability 
studies in film’and ‘the creation and circulation of health-related 
knowledge through print and digital culture in a modern languages context’

*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 
<https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/research-fellowships-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 23 November 2018 *an 
expression of interest using the proforma from the Wellcome Trust to 
(hlcrsch /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(hlcrsch /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>.

Applicants will be informed by Friday 30 November if their application 
is to be supported by the department.

Finalized applications must be submitted to the Wellcome Trust by 11 
January 2019 using the Wellcome Trust application form available 
at:https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/research-fellowships-humanities-and-social-science


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