Research Assistant 

Project: Universities sending Languages Ambassadors to  schools 

Closing date: 17:00 on Tuesday 6 October 2026 

Thanks to generous support from the Council for the Defence of British Universities  (CDBU), The Languages Gateway is seeking to appoint a part-time Research Assistant  for its ‘Universities sending Languages Ambassadors to schools’ project.  

The Research Assistant will be hosted by The Languages Gateway (TLG)  <https://www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/> and supervised by the chair of the TLG  working group on ambassadors (Prof. Neil Kenny) and the chair of the TLG editorial  group (Dr Charlotte Ryland). Neil Kenny is a Fellow of the British Academy and former  Lead Fellow for Languages at the BA. Charlotte Ryland is Founding Director of the  Translation Exchange, based at the University of Oxford. 

The Research Assistant will also liaise with the TLG project manager (Philip Harding Esch), the Research Assistant on the TLG Collaborating for Change project (Dr Liam  Johnston-McCondach), and a web developer. 

Click here for more information, and to apply.