Languages and Linguistics Research Group

This group aims to complement the work of another research group in our subject area, the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research

We do this by offering a space to nurture a very broad range of linguistics and languages-related research and its researchers.

The focus of the group's activities, therefore, is development, involving regular scheduled 'Research Conversations' in which we take it in turns to be a 'conversation starter' on a pressing topic for research development or for the discipline.

We currently have research projects ongoing focused on:

• Motivation in language learning
• Ecolinguistics
• The acquisition of phonology in childhood
• Institutional and professional discourses in multinational or multilingual contexts
• Cross-linguistic awareness in young language learners

Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of projects.

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We encourage applications from prospective postgraduate research students across a range of linguistically-related topics, from more theoretically or structurally based language and linguistic research to highly applied and activist-applied linguistics.