The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies and the Institute of Minority Research at the Europa-Universität Flensburg seek to appoint a
as soon as possible thereafter, for the period of two years, as a 75% FTE.
The appointment is in connection with a research project on “[t]he neuro-cognitive and behavioral interplay between linguistic awareness, metacognitive efficiency, and decision-making strategies: evidence from bilingual and linguistic minority communities”, funded by the Volkswagen foundation.
The project will contribute to an explanation of why people in different communities make different decisions even if they have the same information. It aims to reveal social engineering “tricks” of how social attitudes and behaviours can be orchestrated in pre-planned directions via language manipulation. The project seeks to develop strategies to make individual decisions resilient to such manipulations by engaging general mechanisms of metacognition and metalinguistic awareness.
You will be joining a team of four researchers with specialisms in different fields of linguistics and contribute, in particular, to experimental aspects of the project.
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Your application should include a covering letter of 1-2 pages, a detailed CV of your academic achievements with a complete list of your publications, copies of your certificates and qualifications, and the contact details of two academic referees who may comment on your professional experience.
To learn more about the research project, check this website https://www.uni-flensburg.de/friesisch/forschung/aktuelle-projekte or contact Prof. Langer per email.
Europa-Universität Flensburg seeks to promote employee diversity with respect to the trajectories and competencies of its staff. We explicitly welcome applications from persons with a migration background. Severely disabled applicants with adequate qualifications will be given preference. The university also strives to obtain a balanced gender ratio in all occupational groups.
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