Hello and welcome to Languages and Linguistics!

I'm sure you're excited about starting your studies with us and I wanted to give you a big welcome as the Research Lead for the subject area and let you know about the range of research and public engagement projects that your teaching team get involved in.

The Languages and Linguistics team have:

Written books - monographs (e.g. Academic Irregularities), edited books (e.g. Ontologies of English), and textbooks (e.g. Language in Use, Mapping Applied Linguistics and Working with Texts), as well as having contributed many book chapters to edited collections. 

They have conducted numerous research studies (see for example, Alison Organ's work on the use of Google Translate by languages students and Dr Dai O'Brien's Research Short on the lack of interpreters featuring in the daily coronavirus briefings) and published articles about them (for example, here and here), got involved in lots of public engagement activities about our research areas (for example here, here and here), and developed lots of fascinating research projects on languages and linguistics (for example Dr Kate Whisker-Taylor's work on data from the Kirklees sound archive and her work with students transcribing archives from the Beamish Museum Pitmatic archive).

This is important for you because nearly everyone you'll be taught by is research-active and we all try as much as we can to bring our research and ideas into our teaching and to share our enthusiasm for research with you. You'll even get the chance to get involved in researching important topics with us through the Students as Researchers scheme that you can read about here.  We have even published with our students.

If you want to know more about our research, please follow links to our staff profiles for full publication lists, or get in touch with me to ask any questions.

I'm looking forward to meeting you!

Clare Cunningham
Research and PGR Lead, Languages and Linguistics