Linguistics and English Language: Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a permanent, full-time Lecturer in Linguistics & English Language within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

You will have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in sociolinguistics or a very closely related academic subarea; experience of teaching sociolinguistic topics at university level; and an excellent and developing research programme in an area that has potential for attracting external funding and relates to sociolinguistic variation or other social aspects of language.  Candidates whose research has a quantitative orientation, and/or who have the ability to teach the use of statistics in research in the language sciences, are strongly preferred.

Intended starting date for appointee is 1 August 2010.

Salary Scale: £36,715 – £43,840

Full details and how to apply: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3012538