The School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland is advertising for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Socioeconomics of (additional) Languages. This is a three year, Level A position.
The primary purpose of the position is to undertake a research program on the social and/or economic benefits of learning additional languages. This may include topics such as, but not limited to: the policy-practice nexus in relation to second language education, intergenerational transmission of languages other than English, the socioeconomic benefits of second language education, the relationship between cross-linguistic/cross-cultural competence and social cohesion and innovation, and the implications of increasingly sophisticated machine translation for second language education and use.
Details here: http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/504388/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-socioeconomics-of-additional-languages