Ryan Shaw-Hawkins
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Ryan Shaw-Hawkins
@ryanshaw-hawkins.bsky.social
ESRC funded PhD student at University of Glasgow. Specialised in Sociophonetics, Sex & Gender and Dialectology.
Also affiliated with Queen Margaret University and the university of Edinburgh.
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Scotland continues to be the queerest part of the UK, with 4.2% identifying as LGB, followed by England (3.7%), Wales (3.6%) and Northern Ireland (2.4%).
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I have students from NLP/AI PhD programmes, languages, literatures, visiting students, digital sociology, cognitive science...

Sociolinguistics is the future of linguistics, prove me otherwise.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
please let me know if you are ever here in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 that'd be fabulous! 💐
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
conference and thank you all again for having me through to give a talk - it was an honour. Now...let's finish this thesis!
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
and potential collaborators. Thank you everyone for your kind words and wishes regarding my research - it has given me a huge boost to finish my thesis and to get all my work out there in the world for you all to see. Thanks again to the fabulous organisers over at @umich.edu for an amazing (3)
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
figures in the field on the impact that Labov has made for all of us in Sociolinguistics. Thank you to everyone for welcoming me into such an amazing community of research and people - I feel very fortunate to have had this opportunity and to have left having made lots of new friends (2)
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Ryan Shaw-Hawkins
Theme: Queer (dis)belonging
CfP: 5 January 2026
Website: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk (to be updated as more info becomes available)

PLEASE SHARE WIDELYYYYY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉
LavLang32 - Lavender Languages 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM