Research Assistant in Corpus Linguistics

View All Vacancies
Research Investment Fund
Location:  Ormskirk
Salary:  £24,871 to £27,116 per annum pro rata
Fixed Term for 40 weeks
Post Type:  Part Time
Hours Per Week:  14.5
Closing Date:  Wednesday 27 October 2021
Reference:  EHA2100-1021

INTERNAL VACANCY

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

About You

With research experience in corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, you will be familiar with relevant tools/resources such as ProQuest Database, SketchEngine and Wordsmith. Experience in the field of climate crisis and autism would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be able to work flexibly and independently with highly effective organisational and communication skills. 

About the Role

In this role you will provide quality research support on a research project entitled, ‘Portrayals of Greta Thunberg in the British Press’ and funded by Edge Hill’s University Research Investment Fund. The project will investigate how the British press uses language to portray Greta Thunberg. Responsibilities will include working with Dr Themis Karaminis (Department of Psychology), Dr Costas Gabrielatos (Department of English, History and Creative Writing) and Professor Geoffrey Beattie (Department of Psychology) to develop a corpus of articles and text from the press that refer to the young activist. You will also perform appropriate corpus-linguistics analysis to address the project’s research questions, supported by the project’s research team.

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. 

You’ll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student experience and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do.

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 at [email protected]   

Internal staff wishing to apply for a fixed term role as a secondment opportunity must discuss this with their existing line manager before applying.

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.