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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Language acquisition and multilingualism

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19 Jan 2024

Job Information

Organisation/Company
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Department
Department of Research and Development
Research Field
Language sciences » Linguistics
Researcher Profile
Recognised Researcher (R2)
Country
Norway
Application Deadline
Type of Contract
Temporary
Job Status
Full-time
Hours Per Week
37.5
Offer Starting Date
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Horizon Europe - MSCA
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No

Offer Description

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of language acquisition and multilingualism. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Merete Anderssen. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of language acquisition and multilingualism as presented by Professor Anderssen:

The multilingual experience can take many forms. It may involve a child growing up with two or more languages, a six-year-old having to learn the majority language/variety/written standard as she starts school, a child learning a first or a second foreign language in a school setting, or a multilingual adult whose use of her two or more languages may be considerably imbalanced. Even though multilingual situations vary along several dimensions, they all involve speakers who live with two or more languages/varieties in the same mind, and whose languages may influence one another.  This call invites projects on the role of crosslinguistic influence (CLI) in different multilingual setting, in both language use and language processing. Proposals on a variety of linguistic phenomena, language combinations and populations are welcome. I especially, but not exclusively, solicit projects that consider (i) what role structural overlap or linguistic distance plays in crosslinguistic influence (e.g. Hulk & Müller 2000, 2001); (ii) how experiential variables and general processing load can be teased apart from crosslinguistic influence; and (iii) how comparisons of multilinguals to multilinguals while keeping the target-language constant (for example, L2 learners of English with different L1s or Russian heritage speakers with different majority languages) can help us isolate crosslinguistic influence from other factors determining language outcomes. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to merete.anderssen@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.

Where to apply

E-mail
merete.anderssen@uit.no

Requirements

Research Field
Language sciences » Linguistics
Education Level
PhD or equivalent
Languages
ENGLISH
Level
Excellent

Additional Information

Eligibility criteria
  • Supported fellows must be in possession of a doctoral degree at the time of the call deadline. Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree are also eligible to apply.
  • At the call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree. Years of experience outside research and career breaks (e.g. due to parental leave), will not count towards the amount of research experience. Find Self-Assessment Tool to calculate your eligibility here.
  • Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline. 

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available
1
Company/Institute
UiT the Arctic University of Norway
Country
Norway
City
Tromsø
Postal Code
9019
Street
Hansine Hansensvei 18

Contact

City
Tromsø
Website
Street
Hansine Hansensvei 18
Postal Code
9019
E-Mail
ArcticMSCA@uit.no

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