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Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics

Location: Somerville College - Oxford

Contract Type: Fixed-term

Closing Date: 14 April 2026

Salary: £17,366

Specific Hours : Two academic terms, nine weighted hours of teaching per week per term

Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics

Somerville College proposes to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics for two terms (October 2026 to March 2027 exact dates TBC) to support the College’s needs whilst Louise Mycock, the College’s Tutorial Fellow in Linguistics, is on leave. 

This is a fixed-term contract based at Somerville College. The lecturer will be required to give on average nine (weighted) hours per week of tutorials for Somerville College during the eight-week terms and be available during term-time and for some periods of the students’ vacations to offer organisational, pastoral and admissions support.

Duties of the Post

  • Teach General Linguistics and Syntax to undergraduate students in tutorials and classes for nine weighted hours each week aveeraged over the first two terms (sixteen weeks) of the academic year.
  • Prepare, set, and mark written work, and provide feedback to students (including the timely submission of termly reports).
  • The lecturer will be required to act as personal tutor and organising tutor for undergraduate Linguistics students, and may be asked to act as college adviser to some postgraduate Linguistics students.
  • The lecturer will be expected to arrange teaching and to set and mark collections (termly exams held in college).
  • The lecturer will be required to play a significant role in the undergraduate admissions process, and will be required to participate in appropriate admissions training by the beginning of November 2026 if they have not already done so. 
  • The lecturer will be a member of the Somerville College Education Committee and will be expected to attend its meetings.

The successful candidate should be able to teach the following, as defined in the current exam paper syllabus definitions: 

  • Prelims Syntax and Prelims General Linguistics (including Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics): first-year undergraduate tutorials/classes.
  • Final Honour School Syntax (covering typological generalisations and modern syntactic theory, in particular Lexical-Functional Grammar) and Final Honour School General Linguistics: advanced undergraduate tutorials.

Details of the undergraduate course structure can be found within the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics web pages at https://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate

Full further particulars can be downloaded from the link below:

Stipendiary Lecturer in Linguistics - Further Particulars

The deadline for completed applications and receipt of references is 12.00 noon (UK time) on Monday, 13 April 2026

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