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In-Person Workshop: Corpus Approaches to Language, Text and Discourse Wednesday 3 December 10am-12pm Sign up via Eventbrite The workshop, which is open to staff and postgraduate students, will include researcher demonstrations, participant activities and discussion of best practice. The workshop is aimed at intermediate users, i.e. those with prior experience of using corpus analysis for...
Applying thematic analysis to explore perceptions and self-reported behaviours: using students’ interview and reflective diary data as examples. This event is co-organised with the Social Research Methods Centre. Thematic analysis is widely used in social science research for examining participants’ perceptions through interviews, focus groups and learning diaries. It can also reveal participants’ behaviours through...
Language@Leeds Webinar Language@Leeds invites you to join our webinar in November 2025 titled "Maximising the benefit of early years education for children’s language development", delivered by Prof Cat Davies Presentation summary: The Covid-19 pandemic adversely affected early childhood development across multiple domains, including physical, cognitive, socioemotional, and language skills. UK data indicates that a greater...
Who is this workshop aimed at? Applied linguists who have no or limited knowledge/experience about eye-tracking methodology, but are interested in learning about it as part of a one-day workshop with eye-tracking experts. It is particularly suitable for doctoral students and early career researchers (ECRs), defined as “an individual who is within eight years of...
Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, creativity, and collaboration to generate innovative solutions. In this workshop, we will explore the practical application of design thinking principles to language research, scholarship and impact projects through a combination of theoretical frameworks, hands-on exercises, and discussions. The workshop will equip you with valuable skills...
This workshop will teach you the basics of Bayesian inference using Bayesian linear models fitted with brms in R. The workshop assumes familiarity with R and linear modelling with lme4, but it does not assume previous experience with Bayesian statistics. At the end of the workshop you will be able to fit and interpret basic...
We take 'impact' to refer to any change that academic activity generates in the world beyond academia. Objectives to showcase and share good practice of the impact of language research and scholarship to provide an overview of the support that is available for impact work at the University of Leeds to provide an opportunity to ask...
We are thrilled to invite you to an exciting writing meetup at the Edward Boyle Library, a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow postgraduate researchers, share ideas, and propel your writing and research goals forward. The session will kick off with an enlightening talk by Nick Sheppard, Research Data Management Advisor. Nick will provide valuable...
This free practical workshop is open to all and particularly suitable to early/mid-career researchers. Please click here to register. Abstract: From an ethnography and critical youth studies perspective, how do we study identities, especially those of young people? This interactive session has two objectives. The first is to answer this question of how to study...
Statistics in linguistics and phonetics: Thoughts on independence and generalizability Invited talk by Bodo Winter (University of Birmingham) Linguistics and phonetics have undergone many quantitative revolutions that deeply affected the way data analysis is conducted, such as the shift away from significance tests like t-tests and ANOVAs to the generalized linear model framework. However, despite...