Niall Curry
@niallrcurry.bsky.social
Reader in Languages and Linguistics, Manchester Met • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Climate Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides • FRSA
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Niall Curry
@niallrcurry.bsky.social
· Jul 24
A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics
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📝 📣New OA paper with @tonymcenery.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" You can find it in ARAL here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... & more details in the posts below ⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow and there is time to register still if you're interested 😄 ⤵️
If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
GenAI in the Disciplines
Join us for a hybrid seminar with Dr Nial Curry about Generative AI in the Social Sciences
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November 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow and there is time to register still if you're interested 😄 ⤵️
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If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
GenAI in the Disciplines
Join us for a hybrid seminar with Dr Nial Curry about Generative AI in the Social Sciences
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
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New article out:
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sampling through the lens of QRPs
From an ethical standpoint, it is important that we ensure that our sampling procedures allow us to make generalizations about the populations we wish…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New article out:
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).
Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Such a pleasure to be in Córdoba, for this event. Happy to have been able to share some critical perspectives on the use of GenAI in applied linguistics research and some of the challenges with alignment - you can find out more here too: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Such a pleasure to be in Córdoba, for this event. Happy to have been able to share some critical perspectives on the use of GenAI in applied linguistics research and some of the challenges with alignment - you can find out more here too: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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Very proud to share that yesterday evening, I was presented with the Future Leader Award at the 2025 KTP Awards! 🏆✨
It was wonderful to celebrate 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to Innovate UK 🎉 #KTP50
It was wonderful to celebrate 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to Innovate UK 🎉 #KTP50
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Very proud to share that yesterday evening, I was presented with the Future Leader Award at the 2025 KTP Awards! 🏆✨
It was wonderful to celebrate 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to Innovate UK 🎉 #KTP50
It was wonderful to celebrate 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Congratulations to all the award winners and thank you to Innovate UK 🎉 #KTP50
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Pleased to be awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant with @livunienglish.bsky.social colleague David Oakey for research using corpus linguistics to analyse phraseology/imagery/effectiveness of type 2 diabetes public health messaging. 👉 share.google/cByi9qS690yG...
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Awards 2025
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October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Pleased to be awarded a @britishacademy.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant with @livunienglish.bsky.social colleague David Oakey for research using corpus linguistics to analyse phraseology/imagery/effectiveness of type 2 diabetes public health messaging. 👉 share.google/cByi9qS690yG...
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The way Government funding bodies use AI will be investigated in a two-year study led by linguistics researcher Dr Niall Curry.
The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications.
🔗 https://bit.ly/46YDsbT
The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications.
🔗 https://bit.ly/46YDsbT
Future of AI in research to be explored in groundbreaking study
Implications for how public bodies use generative AI in social sciences research
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October 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The way Government funding bodies use AI will be investigated in a two-year study led by linguistics researcher Dr Niall Curry.
The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications.
🔗 https://bit.ly/46YDsbT
The project will explore how AI is changing social sciences research and its ethical and socioeconomic implications.
🔗 https://bit.ly/46YDsbT
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📢 Registration is open for the Language Testing Forum 2025.
Venue: University of Southampton
Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025
Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025
👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
Venue: University of Southampton
Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025
Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025
👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
Language Testing Forum 2025
Language Testing Forum 2025
www.southampton.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📢 Registration is open for the Language Testing Forum 2025.
Venue: University of Southampton
Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025
Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025
👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
Venue: University of Southampton
Dates: 21st – 23rd November 2025
Join us in celebrating the 45th anniversary of the LTF and the 10th anniversary of the UKALTA! #LTF2025
👉 More information is here: www.southampton.ac.uk/humanities/n...
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I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.
The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.
Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...
The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.
Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...
International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science
New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.
www.ukri.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️
Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study
This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.
Latest volume | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
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October 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.
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Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!
VOCABPROFILE COMPLEAT - INPUT
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September 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!
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Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
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new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
new article published open access in Reading Research Quarterly 💫
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
Follow the word gap: the social life of a deficit concept
doi.org/10.1002/rrq....
i trace how deficit ideologies associated with the 'word gap' get reproduced - and rejected - in teacher education and schools.
Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social
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A systematic approach to identifying communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees
New article out now on how to reduce communication-related vulnerability of war refugees
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September 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A systematic approach to identifying communication-related challenges that should be addressed by policymakers of the host country to reduce the vulnerability of refugees
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Like many other ECRs out there I'm currently looking for a job. If anyone is looking for an RA in linguistics, archival research, palaeography, textual editing etc, please let me know!
September 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Like many other ECRs out there I'm currently looking for a job. If anyone is looking for an RA in linguistics, archival research, palaeography, textual editing etc, please let me know!
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***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW***
“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)
icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...
#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE
“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)
icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...
#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE
APJCR_2025_6_1_25 | 국립인천대학교 코퍼스연구소 / Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University
icr.or.kr
September 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW***
“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)
icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...
#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE
“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)
icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...
#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE
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Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
September 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A pleasure to present at Xi'an Jiaotong University today on AI and Applied Linguistics! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Thanks @tonymcenery.bsky.social for the invitation!
September 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A pleasure to present at Xi'an Jiaotong University today on AI and Applied Linguistics! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Thanks @tonymcenery.bsky.social for the invitation!
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thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
www.jbe-platform.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics
The first session of our "Transforming Research into Practice" workshop series is underway with Masatoshi Sato. Great engagement from researchers & language teachers across the world 🌎 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @eurosla.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our future workshops over the next year! ⬇️
September 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The first session of our "Transforming Research into Practice" workshop series is underway with Masatoshi Sato. Great engagement from researchers & language teachers across the world 🌎 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @eurosla.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our future workshops over the next year! ⬇️
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I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I am seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the ESRC-funded project 'Writing Tasks at School and University'.
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
The post is full-time and will run from 1st November 2025 to 31st January 2029. See below for a brief overview of the project.
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...