Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics

KINGS COLLEGE LONDON; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious university in the UK seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics to lead the curation of a Latin corpus. This role, part of an innovative project, requires a PhD holder or near completion, with experience in Latin and strong collaborative skills. The position offers a full-time contract for 3 years with possible extension, located in a dynamic research environment.

Qualifications

• PhD awarded in Latin Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, or related fields.
• Experience working with Latin corpora and/or dictionaries.
• Collaborative working skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the curation of a large corpus of Latin texts.
• Validate and correct automatic word sense annotations.
• Coordinate a team of annotators.

Skills

PhD in Latin Linguistics or related field

Experience with Latin corpora

Strong proficiency in written Latin

Strong publication record

Ability to work collaboratively

Excellent written communication skills

Knowledge of Medieval Latin

Familiarity with corpus annotation standards

Familiarity with computational semantics methods

Education

PhD awarded or near completion

Job description

Overview

Organisation/Company KINGS COLLEGE LONDON Research Field Language sciences Literature Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Established Researcher (R3) Country United Kingdom Application Deadline 2 Dec 2025 - 00:00 (UTC) Type of Contract Other Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

About us

King’s College London is home to the world’s largest Department of Digital Humanities, located within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. We are internationally recognised for our interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersection of the humanities and computational methods. The successful candidate will join the Computational Humanities research group, a vibrant and collaborative team dedicated to advancing data-driven approaches to historical, linguistic, and cultural research. This post is part of the 5-year project Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics (COALA), successfully evaluated by the ERC as a Consolidator Grant and funded by UKRI, led by Dr Barbara McGillivray.

We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics to lead the curated stream of the COALA project.

This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering project at the intersection of natural language processing, historical linguistics, and computational humanities.

The postholder will lead the curated stream of the project, which involves designing a large corpus of Latin texts, curating it (correction of pre-processed data and corpus metadata), curation of Latin sense inventories from lexicographic sources, validating and correcting automatic word sense annotations, coordinating a team of annotators working on sense annotation, and conducting case studies on Latin lexical semantics. You will work closely with computational linguists to integrate linguistic insights into computational models and help build open-source tools and resources that will support future research in historical semantics and NLP.

You will be responsible to the Principal Investigator and will collaborate with a team of postdoctoral researchers and external advisors across linguistics, NLP, and classical studies.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 3 years (with the possibility of extension)

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

• PhD awarded in Latin Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Digital Humanities or a closely related field or PhD near completion in Latin Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Digital Humanities, or a closely related field*
• Experience working with Latin corpora and/or dictionaries
• Strong proficiency in written Latin
• Strong publication record comparable with career stage
• Ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of Medieval Latin or Neo-Latin
• Familiarity with corpus annotation standards and tools
• Familiarity with computational semantics methods

* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. Should the successful candidate be awaiting the award of their PhD, the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spinal point 30 with the title of Research Assistant until confirmation of the award of the PhD has been received. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6, spine point 31.

Additional information

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Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

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Grade and Salary:£45,031- £47,379 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID:130725

Close Date:02-Dec-2025

Contact Person:Barbara McGillivray

Contact Details:[e-mail]