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We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025!

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August 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Would you like to attend a free workshop to produce a collective film about the future of Morecambe? This exciting new project by Dr @clrnance.bsky.social and Dr Dalila Missero aims to develop a new film drawing upon historical films and oral history recordings.

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A Future Archive: Re-imagining Morecambe through film and audio heritage - Lancaster University
An appeal to the local community to step into the spotlight for a glimpse of a future Morecambe through an historical deep dive into the resort’s cinemas and entertainment is part of a new Lancaster U...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Very happy to have been awarded an APEX grant for a project on “Interpretable acoustic-articulatory relations in speech production” w/ co-investigators Anton Ragni & Aneta Stefanovska. The plan is to do some interesting speech research at the intersection of linguistics, physics & computer science!
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 APEX Awards, granted to ten researchers to pursue innovative, interdisciplinary research. The awards are supported by the @leverhulme.ac.uk and delivered in partnership with the Royal Academy of Engineering and @royalsociety.org: buff.ly/eF30SQq
August 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Day one of the Factor forensic linguistics summer school done and I’m really enjoying it so far.

I did my MA at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social before they did much in this area. I enjoyed sociophonetics so seeing some of the more applied aspects with forensic speech science was a great start!
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I'm excited to be giving a keynote at the @dhssfau.bsky.social summer school on Data, Gender and Society, where I'll be talking about corpus linguistics and language & gender research. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement #DHSS25

We’re pleased to announce our third keynote speaker: @gavinbrookes.bsky.social

🎤 Title: Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections

🗓️ 22–26 September 2025
🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school

#dhss25
July 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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New chapter out now on feminist protest and political change with @mchalu.bsky.social, in this important collection on language and gender in Eastern Europe, edited by @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The Culture and Communication (CULCOM) network held its 3rd annual conference on ‘Business Communication within and across Culture', which took place at Lancaster University.

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Culture and Communication Network (CULCOM) 3rd Annual Conference on ‘Business Communication within and across Culture’ - Lancaster University
On Wednesday, 16th July, the Department of Linguistics and English Language hosted the third annual conference of the Culture and Communication network (CULCOM). This year’s conference focused on busi...
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July 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content'

Read our submission below

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Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.
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July 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026
July 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Exciting to be at the CLASS Centre launch symposium right now — Prof Lauren Devine is opening with a thoughtful and clear vision for what the Centre aims to achieve @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @lulawcrim.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📢 Free Webinar Corpus Linguistics: Skills for the Future

Join @elenasemino.bsky.social & @danagablas.bsky.social as they explore how corpus methods shape healthcare communication & GenAI in language learning.

📆 22 July 2025 | 2–3pm UK time

🔗 Register free: forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF
July 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🧬 @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social demonstrates the corpus linguistic phenomenon of collocation using a molecular structure. #LancsSS25
June 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I'm honoured to have been appointed to the editorial board of Communication & Medicine! This is a leading journal for research on health communication, and I'm excited to support its important work: utppublishing.com/journals/com... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Editorial Board | Communication & Medicine | University of Toronto Press
See the current editorial team behind Communication & Medicine, along with their roles and qualifications as leading experts in their field.
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June 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Linguistics at Lancaster ranked 2nd in the UK and joint 1st for graduate prospects in the 2026 Complete University Guide.

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June 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We are very excited that Samuel Schmück has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a great project on speech analytics and under-represented language varieties in speech technology. Many congratulations Sam!

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Sam Schmück awarded Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship - Lancaster University
Congratulations to Sam Schmück for being awarded a highly prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship!
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June 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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The 19th @lancslinguistics.bsky.social postgraduate conference takes place on 19 & 20 June, with four keynotes, 15 papers and 23 (!) posters. It's an international event, with presenters from across the UK as well as Switzerland, Portugal, China and Pakistan.

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Conference Programme
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June 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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It was an honour to be involved in updating this entry on 'Grammar and Corpora' for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, with @tonymcenery.bsky.social and originally authored by the late Richard Xiao: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Grammar and Corpora
The rapid development of corpus linguistics since the early 1990s has revolutionized virtually all areas of linguistic research. The corpus approach has helped redefine what a grammar is, leading gra...
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June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Enjoyed giving a plenary talk at the CIRLAM conference today, and sharing work on generative AI, discourse and ideology with @emma-putland.bsky.social & Chris Chikodzore-Paterson. Great questions and discussion afterwards, too! @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And also a paper accepted at CogSci 2025! ✨

➡️ Phonetic accommodation and inhibition in a dynamic neural field model
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01210
May 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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We have two papers accepted at #Interspeech2025! ✨

➡️ Nosey: Open-source hardware for acoustic nasalance
arxiv.org/abs/2505.23339

➡️ Articulatory strategy in vowel production as a basis for speaker discrimination
arxiv.org/abs/2505.20995

+ I'll also be giving a survey talk!

See you in Rotterdam! 🇳🇱
May 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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As part of the #ViTraLiP transnational course, our virtual guest was @samkirkham.bsky.social from Lancaster University. During our exchange in #Paris, we were able to attend his talk at the #SRPP colloquium. Thanks to @lppparis.bsky.social for inviting us! Read more here: tinyurl.com/vitralip.
May 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Professor Julia Gillen has been busy discussing her work on Toddlers, Tech and Talk, including submitting evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Media Select Committee inquiry in Media Literacy.

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Julia Gillen on Toddlers, Tech and Talk - Lancaster University
Julia Gillen has been busy discussing her recent research project, “Understanding how very young children learn language and literacy at home in a post-digital age” with a variety of audiences.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Professor Jason Rothman has been inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Congratulations Jason!

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Jason Rothman inducted into Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters - Lancaster University
LAEL Professor Jason Rothman has been inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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May 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM