Postdoctoral Researcher

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Job Category: Academic

Job Description:

Grade UE07- £41,064- £ 48,822 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science; PPLS
Full time: 35 hours per week
Fixed term: 33 months
Positions Available: 1

The Linguistics & English Language Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences are seeking a full time, fixed term Postdoctoral Researcher. This post is available from 1st of May 2026.

The Opportunity:

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The role:

The successful candidate will have expertise in the experimental study of language, and will work alongside Principal Investigator: Prof. Vicky Chondrogianni to contribute to the project “Crosslinguistic influence in predictive processing and production of morphosyntactic features in heritage language children – CLIPP”, funded by the AHRC-DFG.

This post is a full-time (35 hours per week), fixed term post for 33 months available from 1st of May 2026.

Informal enquiries may be made to Prof Vicky Chondrogianni via .

Application information:

We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made). We invite candidates to use their cover letter to highlight professional and personal experiences that maybe relevant to the role. Please note a satisfactory PVG check is required for this role.

As a School we acknowledge that people’s career paths are rarely linear and welcome applicants to expand on their professional and personal journeys where appropriate.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages. The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

• A competitive salary.
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion:

The (Company Name - Subscribers only) holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

We particularly welcome applications from eligible candidates from under-represented groups, including racially minoritised individuals and all gender identities.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

Key dates to note:

The closing date for applications is 19 March 2026.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

We aim to give successful candidates 2 weeks’ notice ahead of interviews.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

Edinburgh has a lively department of Linguistics and English Language with world-leading research and an enthusiastic and supportive teaching culture. We house 33 academic staff who cover a wide range of topics from the early history of English to speech synthesis. Linguistics at Edinburgh ranks 5th in the world and 2nd in the UK (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017).

Our research is placed first for Modern Languages and Linguistics in the Times Higher Education rankings of the Research Excellence Framework 2014.

We have two research centres: the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, and the Centre for Language Evolution. We are also the founders of Bilingualism Matters, a centre for public engagement, which has 16 branches across Europe and the US. Along with Informatics, Linguistics and English Language is a founder member of the University’s Centre for Speech Technology Research.

Our research specialisms range from syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology to language and identity, variationist sociolinguistics, the linguistics of English, language evolution, language acquisition and development, and language change. We have a well-established and large PhD programme, with many of our PhD graduates going on to successful academic careers. We also offer eight taught MSc programmes and an MSc by Research. Each year, our graduate students organise the Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, an international event which has run for over 20 years. The department has access to fully-equipped facilities for EEG/ERP and eye-tracking research, and a state-of-the-art recording studio.

Undergraduate teaching, which draws on our well-established research strengths, ranges from first year classes of around 290 students (including a first year intake onto Linguistics or English Language single and joint honours degree programmes of around 150 students) to some 60 students who choose to write their undergraduate dissertations with us. The Linguistics and English Language student society, LangSoc, runs a lively programme of talks and events and is the host of the 2018 conference for Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB). As well as our single honours degrees, we offer a wide range of joint honours degrees with subjects including English Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Anthropology and Modern Languages. Our teaching is well-regarded by students and external examiners, and we score highly in the National Student Survey (NSS 2017).

Linguistics and English Language has close ties with Psychology and Philosophy, the other two areas within its home School; beyond the School, the department has links with Edinburgh’s renowned Schools of Education and Informatics.

For more information visit https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language