3 PhDs in Multimodal CA

3 PhDs in Basel
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Dates	2024/11/06 - 2025/12/01
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Tweet	Three 4-year PhD positions in an SNF-sponsored project on multimodality in social interaction with Prof. Lorenza Mondada at the University of Basel to start from beginning of 2025. Deadline to apply is 01.12.2024!
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3 PhD positions on multimodality in social interaction at University of Basel:

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The chair of Lorenza Mondada, at the Linguistics and Literature Department of the University of Basel, opens three positions for PhD candidates to be integrated as scientific assistants (100%) in a research project sponsored by the SNF. The positions start at the beginning of 2025 (1.4.2025 at latest) and are for 4 years.

Rooted in multimodal Conversation Analysis, the project involves intensive fieldwork, video recordings in diverse settings and the constitution of data sets for a multimodal and multisensorial analysis contributing to the understanding of the organization of human interaction. The project pays special attention to embodied interactions in their ecology, to the specificity of the material environment and their consequentialities for the organization of social interaction. The project involves the PI, a post-doc and three PhD candidates. The PhD assistants will write a dissertation in multimodal conversation analysis within the project and they will be participating to the collective scientific tasks of the project, together with the members of the team (fieldwork in a diversity of social settings, realization of video data recordings, multimodal transcription, detailed analyses of video data, writing of collective articles; contribution to the organizational and logistic tasks of the project).

The doctoral research assistants receive a salary conform to the SNF conditions for full PhD positions (100%, 4 years).

Your profile

• Completion of a MA in the field of linguistics.
• Willingness to register as a PhD candidate in linguistics at the HPSL doctoral school of the University of Basel at the start of the contract.
• Excellent results within the previous BA and MA studies.
• If possible, already some training in interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis, or high motivation to fully engage in being trained in this kind of research.
• Capacity to work and write in English. Linguistic and analytic competences on German and French if possible. Other languages are welcome.
• Capacity and pleasure to work in a team.

We offer

• Integration in a vibrant research group.
• Excellent training in innovative research in multimodal conversation analysis.
• Active participation to international conference and networks of scholars in conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and interactional linguistics.
• Possibility of research stay abroad during the PhD.

Deadline December 1st, 2024.

How to apply

• Your application should include a letter of motivation, your Curriculum Vitae, a copy of your diploma (if you have it already), a copy of the MA thesis, and a letter of recommendation.
• You will apply using the recruiting online tool of Basel University: https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/three-doctoral-research-assistants/279f1759-01f9-49b7-bbe2-d52b4d4c4a2e

You can ask information about the position, the project and the expected profile by contacting lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch.

See also for general information:

• https://franzoesistik.philhist.unibas.ch/fr/persons/lorenza-mondada/
• https://www.lorenzamondada.net/

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