Submit your Notice of Interest | Language Sciences Interim Co-Director

September 24, 2024

The Language Sciences Co-Directors define and lead Language Sciences’ research program, community and industry outreach, and knowledge mobilization efforts with support from the Steering Committee and staff. 

We invite you to send us your Notice of Interest to fill the position of Interim Co-Director of the Language Sciences Global Research Excellence Institute, at UBC Vancouver, for a one-year term, with an anticipated start date of January 1st, 2025. The interim Language Sciences Co-Director will work to advance the goals of the Institute as outlined below, alongside Co-Director Dr. Guofang Li (Canada Research Chair and Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education) during the time Dr. Bryan Gick is on study leave.

Click below to learn about the role:

Eligibility 

Professors and Associate Professors in the Faculty of Arts at UBC Vancouver whose core research is related to Language Sciences’ research themes are eligible. 

Acknowledgment of Service  

The successful candidate may receive the equivalent of one 3-credit course buyout per interim Co-Director term (contingent upon approval of the head of their academic home unit) or an honorarium in lieu, should they already have course releases through other arrangements. 

Send us your NOI

Notice of Intent:

Complete the brief Notice of Interest form and send us your updated CV along with a short (1-2 page) statement to Adriana Osa Gomez del Campo at adriana.osa-gomez@ubc.ca describing the following: 

  1. Your vision for Language Sciences 
  2. Leadership experience 
  3. Commitment to EDI 

Deadline: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 by 11:59pm

Notice of Interest form


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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