Department: School of Celtic Studies
Vacancy ID: 033461
Closing Date: 23-Feb-2025
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.
We are seeking an experienced postdoctoral researcher for the research project DiAgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish. This project is conducted with the financial support of an Advanced Laureate Award from Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under Grant number IRCLA/2023/2124 and is led by Professor David Stifter. DiAgnostic aims at making methodological progress in establishing if the Early Irish language, especially in its Old Irish form, showed regional diversification, i.e. dialects. We expect to make a significant contribution to the description and the understanding of the development of the Early Irish language and of its sociohistorical context, including implications for its prehistory. Work is carried out primarily within the discipline of historical linguistics with a strong emphasis on digital humanities, but other aspects of linguistics such as syntactic theory, sociolinguistics, and the philology of Early Irish texts play a role as well.
The position of the postdoctoral researcher will mostly involve identifying appropriate new texts for the existing project database (Corpus Palaeohibernicum), linguistic analysing texts and adding their data to the database, and assisting in its technical improvement, as well as contributing to other project deliverables.
Salary
Post-doctoral Researcher Level 1 (2024): €44,847 – €51,313 p.a. (6 points)
Senior Post-doctoral Researcher (2024): €52,716 p.a. (1 point with increment)
Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.
Closing Date
23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday, 23rd February 2025.
Please note all applications must be made via our Online Recruitment Portal at the following link:
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. Late applications will not be accepted.
Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer.
The position is subject to the Statutes of the University.
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