Doctoral Position in multilingual language learning / education(part-time 50 %, E 13 TV-L)Reference number 2024/117. The start date is 01.07.2024 or soon thereafter. The position is available until 28.02.2027 with an option to be extended. The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.The Multilingualism Group at the University of Konstanz headed by Prof Dr Theodoros Marinis is recruiting a PhD candidate to work on the project ‘ACT and connect for Integration’ (ACTIN) that has been funded by the European Union under the AMIF program (Transnational Actions on Asylum, Migration and Integration).Project descriptionACTIN is an international project involving the University of Konstanz, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Strasbourg, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, the University of Geneva, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and the NGOs Roscommon in Ireland, Solidarity now in Greece, and Fundacja Wspierania Kultury I Jezyka Polskiego Im. Mikolaja Reja.The aim of the project is to support and reinforce the integration and inclusion of migrant children and adolescents in education and by extension in the society by developing, implementing, and evaluating language and language & content learning activities within schools and informal educational activities within and outside schools.The doctoral researcher will develop, implement and evaluate a series of plurilingual language learning activities for primary and secondary school children in Germany in collaboration with the other team members across the consortium. The doctoral researcher will also be involved in cultural sensitivity workshops in formal education and extracurricular activities in informal education settings, as well as in the development of an open access resource. Working languages are English and German.The Multilingualism Group is part of the Linguistics Department that combines theoretical with experimental linguistics and offers a lively and internationally well-connected research environment, where students are integrated in scholarly life and research at all levels. The department’s research infrastructure includes the Psycholinguistics Lab, the Neurolinguistics Lab, the Baby Speech Lab, the MuSe Lab, the Phonlab, and the Computational Linguistics Lab. The doctoral researcher will join the doctoral programme of the Linguistics Department and will be supervised by Prof Dr Theodoros Marinis and members of the international consortium.
