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es and we went on some really fun trips and i got to work with some brilliant mates and made even more brilliant mates too also because i ran a linguistic society i was contacted by david arnold a student of the university of edinburgh who invited the society to the first undergraduate linguistics association of britain conference but that s another very long story click the link to find out bad things people kept expecting me to be some kind of linguistics whizz kid which was a pity because i m actually quite stupid they d be all like tom you run the linguistics society do you remember all the rules on sanskrit morphology and i d be all like no then they d be all like what about a brief history of marxism in linguistics and i d be like how would i know that then they d say oh but you re the president of the linguistics society surely you d know and then i would have to run away and hide in shame also running a society cough especially a twice award winning society cough takes a lot of time so you need to ensure you stay organised and not let it take over your life anything else if you re at university studying linguistics and there isn t a linguistics language society near you set one up make sure you ve got some good people who are just as enthusiastic as you are to work with and you re good to go and if there is a society near you get involved in any way that you can it s a great way to meet people and have fun all while pretending you re only doing it to beef up your cv posted in society tagged lingexperience linguistic experience project linguistics societies thomas williams ulab university uwe uwe linguistics society leave a comment manchester and salford new researchers forum in linguistics careers panel november 13 2012 by lingexperience contributor claire two weekends ago i attended manchester and salford new researchers forum in linguistics or mancsafil as it was known on the social networking communities i was a little daunted when i arrived as being one of only three graduates who were not currently on postgraduate study but felt welcomed and accepted by all the one aspect apart from the research of course is the networking and meeting people who are enthusiastic as you about your field after not encountering much linguistics in the past 6 months since graduating as i am focusing my attention towards speech and language therapy it was quite lovely to indulge in some of my favourite fields of linguistics namely phonetics phonology sociophonetics and sociolinguistics this post focuses on the outcomes of the careers panel consisting of the plenary speakers all either recently finished their phd or in the finishing stages and with recent teaching positions sam kirkham lancaster university ingrid lossius falkum post doctoral fellow at the university of oslo laurel mackenzie university of manchester and george walkden university of manchester all discussed their experiences in job applications interviews publications publishing phd work conferences post docs and lectureships i must reinforce that this post is based on notes written two weeks ago if i have gotten something wrong it s probably due to my bad handwriting and bad note taking abilities if anything should be changed or i ve represented things incorrectly please contact me how to present your phd and long term future research while applying for jobs george your future research should feed on from your phd but not directly laurel there s always unanswered questions that stem from your research or others ways you could address your research question sam you should have a balance between short and long term research aims so that you have something concrete that you can achieve in the not so distant future ingrid her phd concentrated on polysemy and as its such a huge subject you cannot consider covering it all at once you should always be looking for the next step laurel you should have plans for future work not for the rest of your life but where you want to go in the next few years you should look at the broader implications of your study sam had lots of ideas throughout phd keep them for future research laurel keep a research journal and future project ideas george had some insane and some brilliant ideas he got some other publications out during his phd because he couldn t concentrate on one but they were all related to his phd somehow laurel if your phd is not done while applying you should have some concrete just write something like a chapter or a related topic in a paper and send it somewhere so at least you can say that it is under review publications sam completing a phd would be quicker without any publications however he made a planned effort to submit a journal article to get a publication out and leave his phd a little longer he used his masters as a source for publication george getting something published takes a long time he submitted something in the summer of 2010 and it is being published in summer 2013 you may not hear anything for 6 months to a year ingrid you need one publication at least in the job market sam he made an effort not to go to a journal but to go for special issue because it was quicker publishing phd work laurel would write working papers then turn it into a chapter and then turn it into a conference article and then an expanded chapter george would write two standalone articles and turn them into chapters and then fit it into the grand scheme of the phd ingrid working papers are good you re forced to write a paper and then you make it into a chapter george working papers are not ideal as they are not recognised everywhere but you can get your research down and start to get recognised conferences sam went to too many conferences and submitted a lot of undergraduate and master s work and because it was all so different people thought that he did different things it s not always helpful to resent george if he hadn t gone to conferences and networked he wouldn t have gotten his teaching job you should ask yourself what am i getting out of this conference laurel her cv has formal and theoretical conferences but also sociolinguistic conferences it s good to cross boundaries sam agrees with laurel ingrid went to too many conferences but found it better to go to specialist conferences because you get much better feedback george suggests going to lagb because it gives you a landscape of the job market and other research also an excellent place to network and cross discipline job application process laurel each job has different requirements regarding statements you need to sit down write down everything and then find your theme the basis of a research statement should have a unifying theme sam you should have a consistent agenda who you are and how it relates to your teaching and how you would fit into the university you re applying to there should be a coherent and consistent thread ingrid regarding her post doctorate research proposal she wrote different research proposals and contacted the staff and collaborated together on a unified research proposal it should be inline with staff interests interview process laurel used a lot of resources careers centres etc did a lot of research didn t do a practice interview but wrote out answers to typical interview questions lsa tips for job seekers sample questions george questions he had tell us your main ideas you ve been researching and how can they be falsified how would you spend a grant if all your work is in one theoretical framework what other frameworks could you use and how laurel you re asked could you teach this do researching on funding groups and what kind of money you could realistically get sam was asked to give a teaching demonstration ingrid research the background of the committee members questions about a research proposal might be how would you do this from this point of view and it would be the point of view of one of the committee members sam be realistic with timescales such as when asked when will you finish you phd think about how you would prepare undergraduate and postgraduate work what would you teach check what is on offer there were some questions asked and answers given but notes on this part are even more wishy washy posted in conferences tagged academic careers conference education lingexperience linguistic experience project linguistics manchester new researchers forum in linguistics phd postgraduate salford teaching university of manchester leave a comment graduate traineeship elizabeth gaskell library manchester metropolitan university november 7 2012 by lingexperience contributor emily what i m a graduate trainee at elizabeth gaskell library manchester metropolitan university why did you choose this place i wanted to get experience of working in an academic library before starting an ma course in librarianship most universities stipulate that you must have had at least a year s experience in a library before beginning your study how did you find the application process it was just like most other job applications application form interview references nothing too complicated in the application and interview i had to give evidence of skills such as customer service attention to detail and organisation as well as demonstrating that i m serious about a career in librarianship the whole process probably took two months from start to finish but they were very quick in offering me the job which i appreciated the competition for gt jobs is very fierce i heard from one employer saying they d had over 100 applicants for the post and considering there are probably 30 jobs advertised on the cilip website throughout the year that s tough the areas in which jobs are advertised are also very limited most of the posts available are advertised by colleges at cambridge or oxford or are based in london regional posts are few and far between which can be a challenge the other thing to keep in mind is that most of the posts but not all are in university libraries so there s not much opportunity for training experience in legal school or public libraries for example what do you do here the job is intended to give an overview of all the different types of work that library staff do and so it s very varied i work on the issue counter on a rota basis issuing and discharging books and dealing with fine payments and once a week i deal with enquiries at the helpdesk i spend the rest of my time in the workroom working on various projects i recently created a podcast explaining how to use a database and i ve also created various helpsheets and guides for use in the library i am responsible for receiving new books and making sure they re added to the catalogue and reading lists i m also involved in digitisation which is where we create pdfs of chapters or articles and upload them so people can read them online this is what takes up most of my time as scanning a chapter from a book can take ages i also help out with general library duties such as straightening and shelving books as well as satisfying reservations my work is also very tangentially related to linguistics our library caters for speech pathology and therapy students among others so i m often working with books on phonology pragmatics speech disorders and the nature of language there are six other gts at mmu spread out over the various library sites and the library team have set up a training programme for us with various sessions throughout the year topics include presentation skills teaching and customer services as well as behind the scenes tours of library support services special collections and other libraries the good things librarians are by nature very friendly and approachable and so i ve settled in really quickly there s loads of stuff to learn and the training programme is really varied i ve had a lot of hands on experience in dealing with customers which is invaluable and looks great on cvs and ma applications i ve become familiar with library management software and several databases and have had lots of opportunities to develop all sorts of skills i m even going to help teach an information skills session in the spring it s great preparation for a librarianship course and a great start to my career i ve also seen what sort of things a subject librarian gets up to which is what i want to do i could potentially end up as a linguistics librarian which would be brilliant the bad things it can sometimes be incredibly boring the workloads ebbs and flows as does the number of students coming in to the library despite having a lot of projects there are still days when there aren t any new books or any digitisation requests and i ll be twiddling my thumbs there s only so long you can straighten books before your eyes go funny also in a more general sense now is not a brilliant time to be going into librarianship what with the extensive government cuts to libraries and public services even academic libraries which are probably a lot safer than other types of library are working on very tight budgets thanks to cuts to he funding and there s no guarantee of me walking into a good professional post after my ma however that s a bridge i don t need to cross for another 18 months anything else we should know librarianship might not be an obvious choice for someone who s studying linguistics but a lot of the skills and knowledge you pick up are transferable for example if you re the type of person who enjoys studying syntax then you probably have the logical mindset that s useful for cataloguing i ve also used my linguistic knowledge when helping speech pathology students think of search terms for databases if you want to get into librarianship a graduate traineeship followed by an ma is only one of the routes into the field cilip has a comprehensive guide to the sorts of things you could do to get into libraries and the library routes project and library day in the life project are good resources too if 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