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ProjectPrinciple InvestigatorRunning
Translation Error Analysis for Chinese/English Translation PedagogyCuie Xu (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2024–ongoing
Young people, criticality and figurative languageAlice Deignan (Education)2024–27
iDemSerge Sharoff (Centre for Translation Studies)2024–26
Co-designing a REading App To use in primary Education (CREATE) projectPaula Clarke (Education)2024–24
Modelling structures of connoisseurship in fine art auction catalogues (Germany 1900-45)Mathew Henrickson (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies / Computer Science)2023–ongoing
Use of vocabulary strategies to improve learning in children with English as an additional language (EAL)Annabel Pickard (Psychology)2023–28
Language and Life Narrativisation in WW2 memoirs: a stylistic perspectiveChristiana Gregoriou (English)2023–26
Future-proofing Q-BExCecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics)2023–26
Linguistic diversity and accent bias in Higher Education and beyondGisela Tomé Lourido (Linguistics & Phonetics)2023–24
Heritage protection, sustainable development and resilience through traditional ecopoetics in al-Mahrah, YemenJanet C.E. Watson (Linguistics & Phonetics)2023–24
Connecting and Comprehending Through Play Peter Hart (Education)2023–24
Crouching Button, Hidden Typo: Reception of Chinese-English VideogamesJemma Louise Stafford (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2022–25
"Stepping Up, Standing Out": Supporting international taught post graduates' development of academic literaciesn LeedsClare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)2022–25
Computational Linguistics and Language Learning: Error identification in advanced learners of Mandarin ChineseAlison May (English)2022–24
Reimagining the 'fifth' wall: The role of the translator in British and American staged productions of the works of Mikhail BulgakovCaroline Summers (Translation and Transcultural Studies)2021–ongoing
Tense and tendencies: A linguistic analysis of verbal data from people with low moodKate Sayers (English)2021–ongoing
The Use of Adjective Intensification by Najdi Dialect Speakers in RiyadhRandah Alfuhaydi (School of English & LCS)2021–25
Language Revitalisation and Resistance in the Kariri-Xocó Community of BrazilDiane Nelson (Linguistics & Phonetics)2019–ongoing
The Phonetics and Phonology of Modern South Arabian (Mehri and Shehret)Janet C.E. Watson (Linguistics & Phonetics; Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)2019–ongoing
The Phonetics and Phonology of Ḥarsūsi: An Instrumental Phonetics StudyHammal Al Balushi (Linguistics & Phonetics)2019–24
Virtually Here and There: Digital interaction practices on international students’ adaptation and attainmentClare Wright (Linguistics and Phonetics)–ongoing

Past projects

ProjectPrinciple InvestigatorEnded
"Virtually fluent conversations": examining post-pandemic year abroad and hybrid learning impact on language degree student experiencesClare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)2024
A citizen science approach to the assessment of pragmatic language in adolescentsCecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics)2024
Language maintenance in contexts of immigrationCecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics)2024
Developing Academic Interactional Competence in Saudi EFL classroomsDr Clare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)2024
How variable is speech, how reliable are single recordings? Assessing the medium-term dynamics of speech through iterative data collectionLeendert Plug (Linguistics & Phonetics)2024
Unveiling the factors for the predictive validity of IELTS for postgraduate studies: assessment, teaching and learning in the TLU domainHuahui Zhao (Education)2023
In Our Name: pragmatics, materiality and ideologies of power and nation in the correspondence of James V and Henry VIII, 1513-1542.Mel Evans (English)2023
Investigating and responding to teachers’ beliefs of the integration of variation in Arabic school teachingRasha Soliman (LCS)2023
Spoken Language, Standards and Inequality in SchoolsJulia Snell (English)2023
Subtitling 3.0: Translating the Verbal and BeyondSara Ramos Pinto (Centre for Translation Studies)2022
Assessing core language skills in the Born-in-Bradford cohort: Administering a Comprehensive Language Assessment Tool for Children of Various Linguistic BackgroundsCecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics)2022
Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development (Comm4CHILD)Ruth Swanick (Education)2022
Quantifying bilingual language experience: Optimising tools for educators, clinicians and researchersCecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics)2022
The role of regional variation in speech processingGisela Tomé Lourido (Linguistics & Phonetics)2022
ETHER: Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the OtherMaggie Kubanyiova (CLER)2022
The Impact of COVID-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE)Hannah Nash (Psychology)2021
British Academy's GCRF Early Childhood Education ProgrammeRuth Swanwick (Education)2021
Dynamic Assessment of Reading Test (DART)Hannah Nash (Psychology)2021
Linguistic Challenges of the Transition from Primary to Secondary SchoolAlice Deignan (Education)2021
AI-based study for detecting COVID19 misinformationSerge Sharoff ( Centre for Translation Studies)2021
Children's experience, understanding, and use of adjectives across the socioeconomic spectrumCatherine Davies (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2021
Yemen in Conflict: Popular literary heritage as expression of conflict and tool for conflict resolutionDeryn Rees-Jones2020
L2 Mandarin acquisition and HSK test-taker characteristicsClare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)2020
EU-MADE4LL - European Multimodal Digital Education for Language LearningElisabetta Adami (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2020
L2 Mandarin acquisition during Study AbroadClare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)2020
Co-DigiTech - Co-designing methods with older people to understand the role of digital technologies in social isolationElisabetta Adami (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2020
DARE Art PrizeAnna Ridler (Artist)2019
Language and memory function in typically and atypically developing childrenEkaterini Klepousniotou (Psychology)2019
Born in Bradford New WaveEkaterini Klepousniotou (Psychology)2019
Building a civic curriculum: Helping local schools better support EAL childrenHelen Sadig (Leeds, LITE)2019
Updating AntConc for spoken and educational language dataRobbie Love (Education)2019
Ambiguity and its implications for models of word comprehensionEkaterini Klepousniotou (Psychology)2018
Leeds VoicesElisabetta Adami (Languages, Cultures and Societies)2016
Reading for comprehensionChildhood and Inclusive Education Group2015
Referential communication and executive function skills in bilingual childrenLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2015
Natural language processing working together with Arabic and Islamic studiesArtificial Intelligence Group2015
Community intravenous antibiotic studyMedicines Management Group2015
Visualising the UK General Election 2015 TV debatesPolitical Communication Group2015
White Rose Network for the Interdisciplinary Study of Second Language Learning (NISSLL)Melinda Whong2015
New statistical methods to analyse psycholinguistic dataLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2014
Political voice/Voicing politicsPolitical Communication Group2014
HyghTra: A hybrid high quality translation systemLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2014
Text analytics to predict cause of death in verbal autopsiesArtificial Intelligence Group2014
Exploring psycholinguistic eye tracking methodologies and data analytic techniquesLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2014
National network for interpretingLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2013
Detecting terrorist activities: Making senseArtificial Intelligence Group2013
A multimethodological approach to rhotic sounds in EnglishLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2013
Anonymization of cancer patient recordsArtificial Intelligence Group2013
e-Health GATEway to the cloudsArtificial Intelligence Group2012
Terminology extraction, translation tools and comparable corporaLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Online resource for conference interpreter trainingLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Sensitivity to quantity maxims in children with autism and language impairmentLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
ReadingCorpLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Prosodic marking revisited: The phonetics of self-initiated self-repair in DutchLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Lateral emphatics in south-west Saudi ArabiaLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
How do 3- and 5-year-olds respond to over- and under-informative utterances?Language, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Analysis and evaluation of comparable corpora for under resourced areas of machine translationLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2012
Tools and applications for corpus-based models of meaningArtificial Intelligence Group2012
Web-as-corpus resources for Islamic studiesArtificial Intelligence Group2012
IntelliText: Intelligent tools for creating and analysing electronic text corpora for humanities researchLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2011
Evaluation in translationLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2011
Mario Vargas Llosa papersLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2011
WebDocLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2010
Whose Voices?English Language Group2010
Sentence processing in children with Williams syndrome using eye-trackingLanguage, Linguistics and Translation Research Group2010