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1 — Career jobs

🎓🎓 Digital Investigations Analyst — online threats and disinformation
Protection Group International · London, UK · hybrid
Investigate disinformation campaigns, attribute information operations and produce concise threat assessments for clients. Strong FLiSS connection through online-language evidence, discourse and investigative reporting; prior OSINT/digital-investigation experience is required and a second language is desirable. More →

🎓🎓 Voice Technology Validation Scientist
Cambridge Cognition · Bottisham (Cambridge), UK · hybrid · £50,000–£65,000/year · full-time, 12-month fixed term
Lead evaluation of speech recognition and voice analytics across languages, populations and recording conditions, including transcription-error effects, reliability and bias. Particularly relevant to forensic speech evaluation; requires an MSc/PhD plus significant validation experience and quantitative analysis using R or Python. More →

🎓 Localisation Linguist (multiple languages) — synthetic voice evaluation
BRAHMA AI · London/remote, UK · salary and closing date not stated
Evaluate synthetic voices for linguistic accuracy, prosody, pronunciation, emotion, timing and naturalness, and develop pronunciation and quality standards. Formal linguistics/localisation training or equivalent experience and native or near-native proficiency in a recruiting language (including English) are sought; building neural networks is not required. More →

🎓🎓 Forensic Audio Analyst
J P French International · UK · full-time · salary and deadline not stated
Specialist forensic analysis of digital recordings, including enhancement, authentication and sound-source examinations: a direct forensic speech/audio pathway. Requires established forensic audio-examination experience and acoustics or acoustical-engineering expertise, so this is not a general graduate-entry role. More →

🎓🎓 Language Quality & AI Specialist
Language Inspired · fully remote (Europe/worldwide advertised) · permanent · salary and deadline not stated
Oversee human and AI-assisted language-quality evaluation using MQM and ISO standards, quality scorecards and multilingual review programmes. A linguistics/translation background plus at least three years of localisation-quality experience is required; UK contractual eligibility should be confirmed before applying. More →

3 — Scholarships & studentships

🎓🎓 Funded PhD — Multisensory Prosody in Spoken Catalan (PROSODY-SENSES PhD1)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra / GrEPG · Barcelona, Spain · €22,607.28 gross/year · full-time predoctoral contract, 1–4 years · closes 18 Dec 2026
ERC-funded experimental research on Catalan speech prosody, acoustic annotation and synchronised audiovisual/motion-capture data: a specific methodological bridge to forensic-speech phonetics, not a forensic project. Requires a relevant master’s and experimental quantitative experience; near-native Catalan is strongly valued, with doctoral enrolment and applicable work authorisation required. More →

🎓🎓 Funded PhD — Multisensory Prosody in Spoken Portuguese (PROSODY-SENSES PhD2)
Universitat Pompeu Fabra / GrEPG · Barcelona, Spain · €22,607.28 gross/year · full-time predoctoral contract, 1–4 years · closes 18 Dec 2026
Experimental research on European Portuguese prosody using acoustic, audiovisual and motion-capture measurements has a concrete phonetics and speech-analysis overlap with FLiSS/FSS. Requires a relevant master’s and experimental quantitative experience; Portuguese and Catalan are not required at entry but learning them is expected, alongside doctoral enrolment and applicable work authorisation. More →

4 — Paid work while you study

💷 Graduation Assistant — December 2026
Lancaster University · Lancaster campus · £12.71/hr + £1.53 holiday pay · up to 25 hours during December graduation · closes 2 Nov 2026
Paid ceremony and visitor support across cloakroom, Great Hall, live broadcast and welcome duties. Applicants must attend the in-person 7 December briefing and be available for their full assigned shifts; a CV and cover letter are required. More →

💷 Uncover Progress (UP) Mentor
Lancaster University · campus / remote within UK · £13.71/hr + £1.65 holiday pay · around 2 hours/month plus preparation, Feb–Nov 2027 · closes 5 Nov 2026
Paid online mentoring for Year 12 pupils, including training and a March residential. Restricted to eligible continuing Lancaster students (extended degree or staying for postgraduate study); enhanced DBS and safeguarding requirements apply. More →

💷 Graduation Photography Assistants — December 2026
Lancaster University / Creative Studio · Lancaster campus · £12.96/hr + £1.56 holiday pay · temporary graduation support · closes 9 Nov 2026
Paid sales, studio administration and ushering support for graduation photography. Must attend training on 8 December and be available for the full days on both 9 and 10 December; a cover letter is required. More →

💷 Web Developer with LLM Adapter Knowledge — CASS
Lancaster University / CASS · campus / remote within UK · £17.33/hr + £2.09 holiday pay · 10–15 hours/week, Nov 2026–Jun 2027 · closes 16 Nov 2026
Paid development of corpus-query tools and local-LLM integrations, directly connected to language research. Suitable only for applicants with substantial JavaScript/Python web development, frameworks, APIs/databases, Linux deployment and LLM integration experience; UK residence required. More →

💷 Online Spanish Tutor — Salamanca House
Salamanca House (advertised via Lancaster ERS) · remote within UK · National Living Wage by age + holiday pay · flexible 1–10 hours/week · rolling
Paid online teaching of small adult Spanish classes, with direct email application through the advert. Requires native Spanish or DELE C2, English B2+, age 19+, UK right to work and suitable private online-teaching facilities; this is an external employer. More →

Key and cautions

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