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| Name | Affiliation | Areas of expertise | Research methods | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aliaga-Salas, Loreto | Education | language comprehension; language pedagogy; second language acquisition; | ethnography; classroom observations; stimulated recall | English; Spanish |
| Atwell, Eric | School of Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence for Language; Large Language Models; Natural Language Processing; Computational Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Arabic and Islamic texts; semantics; dialectology; morphology; syntax; systemic functional linguistics | Artificial Intelligence; Large Language Models; Corpus Linguistics; Natural Language Processing; Data Mining; experimental methods | English; Arabic |
| Bradford, Terry | French | intercultural competence; interpreting; language comprehension; language pedagogy; lexis; text genres; translation | experimental methods; close reading | French |
| Brunetto, Valentina | Linguistics and Phonetics | first language acquisition; psycholinguistics; semantics; syntax | experimental methods | English, Italian |
| Butcher, Kerri-Ann | School of English | phonology, phonetics, sociophonetics, geolinguistics, dialectology | instrumental/quantitative, experimental, spatial mapping, crowdsourcing surveys, perceptual judgement tasks, sociolinguistic interviews | English |
| Cerda, Yolanda | Language Centre | language education, language policy, feminist linguistics, communication; critical discourse analysis; discourse; intercultural communication; language pedagogy; sociolinguistics | critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, | English; Spanish |
| Clarke, Paula | Education | language comprehension | randomised controlled trials; intervention design; assessment design; | English |
| Condorelli, Marco | School of English | writing systems, linguistics | corpus linguistics | English |
| Davies, Catherine | Linguistics and Phonetics | cognitive development; communication; first language acquisition; language comprehension; pragmatics; psycholinguistics | experimental methods; eye tracking; randomised controlled trials (for language intervention) | English |
| De Cat, Cecile | Linguistics and Phonetics | assessing language proficiency; bilingualism; English as an Additional Language (EAL); first language acquisition; generative linguistics; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; syntax | corpus linguistics; experimental methods; grammaticality judgement tests; reaction times | English; French |
| de Pauw, Denise | Language Centre | literacy as social practice; digital literacy practices; language, migration, education, employability | ethnography; activity theory; mediated discourse analysis | English |
| Del Pozo García, Alba | Spanish and Portuguese | CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning); Scholarship of Language Teaching and Learning; Spanish language teaching; | action research; interviews; focus groups; thematic analysis; cultural studies | Spanish; English; Catalan |
| Ding, Alexander | Language Centre | English for Academic Purposes; Social Theory and Higher Education; Politics & Ethics of Academic Communication | Qualitative methods; interviewing; socio-analysis; surveys; ethnography | English; French |
| Eberharter, Judith | German | language pedagogy; Second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; | surveys; questionnaires; semi-structured interviews | German, language variations; |
| Evans, Mel | School of English | computational linguistics; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; historical linguistics; language change; narratives; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; stylistics; text genres; multimodality; | corpus linguistics; multimodal analysis; archival research; palaeography | English; Scots |
| Gaci, Karima | French | History of language education; didactics of grammar historiography; history of French language; French grammar; French linguistics | Archival research; descriptive analysis; comparative methods | French; English |
| Gallagher, John | School of History | History of language; migration and multilingualism; history of language learning and teaching; urban multilingualism; migration and multilingualism; history of translation; early modern history | Archive-based historical research | English; French; Dutch; Italian; Irish; Spanish |
| Gregoriou, Christiana | School of English | crime/prison narrative analysis | stylistics; cognitive poetics | English |
| Henrickson, Mathew | School of Computer Science | NLP, LLMs and machine learning. | computational text analysis with LLMs and Transformers | English, German, French, Spanish |
| Hulme, Angela | Language Centre | language pedagogy; curriculum design; needs analysis | listening rooms; interviews; discourse analysis | English |
| Lam, Charles | Language Centre | English for Academic Purposes; text analytics; digital humanities; syntax; semantics; humour studies | corpus linguistics; experimental methods; natural language processing | English; Cantonese |
| Liu, Yanhua | Language Centre | academic discourse; English for Academic Purposes; Generative AI in language education; multimodality; scientometric review | genre analysis; discourse analysis; mixed methods; surveys; interviews; corpus linguistics; multimodal analysis; scientometrics | English; Chinese |
| Magro Ramos Pinto, Sara | School of Languages Cultures & Societies | audiovisual translation; dialectology; discourse; multimodality; sociolinguistics; translation | experimental methods; eye tracking; questionnaires, interviews | Portuguese |
| Martinez-Arboleda, Antonio | Spanish and Portuguese | critical pedagogies; open educational resources; podcasting; open educational practice; Spanish language in an economic and business context; Spanish language and politics | participatory student research; interviewing; oral history | Spanish |
| Martinho, Sofia | Spanish and Portuguese | language pedagogy; second language acquisition; pluricentric languages pedagogy; language teacher education, COIL pedagogy for language learning and global citizenship; advocacy for languages including heritage languages | practitioner research; ethnography; exploratory practice; participatory research | Portuguese |
| McGarrigle, Ronan | School of Psychology | Speech perception; second language listening | Experimental methods; Eye-tracking; Pupillometry | |
| Monbec, Laetitia | Language Centre | Disciplinary Literacy; Academic communication; colour semiotics; field analysis of English for Academic Purposes | Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, Corpus, Ethnography; Legitimation Code Theory; Bourdieu's Field theory. | English; Multimodal resources, in particular colour as a semiotic mode. |
| Mullen, Niamh | Language Centre | Listening; second language listening; identity; linguistic and cultural diversity; silence and engagement | narrative analysis | English |
| Munday, Jeremy | School of Languages Cultures & Societies | Translation studies; translation theory; discourse analysis; ideology and translation; translator archives and manuscripts | qualitative and quantitative analysis of translation shifts; discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; | English; French; Spanish; German; Portuguese; Catalan; Italian |
| Nabukeera, Olive | Language Centre | English for Academic Purposes; Applied linguistics/TESOL; Race and Racialised Identities; Black Studies | critical race methodologies; mixed methods | English |
| Nash, Hannah | School of Psychology | assessing language proficiency; developmental language disorder; first language acquisition; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | electroencephalography (ERPs); experimental methods | |
| Norton, Chris | Linguistics and Phonetics | psycholinguistics; English for Academic Purposes | corpus linguistics; data mining; eye tracking; reaction times | English |
| Pecorari, Diane | Education | English-medium instruction; English for academic purposes; academic integrity; plagiarism | language testing; qualitative research | English; Swedish |
| Pischedda, Pier | Linguistics and Phonetics | critical discourse analysis; historical linguistics; intercultural competence; language change; multimodality; sociolinguistics; translation; translanguaging; bilingualism; phonetics | ethnography; corpus linguistics; multimodal analysis; surveys | English; Italian; Spanish; Japanese |
| Plug, Leendert | Linguistics and Phonetics | conversation analysis; language change; phonetics; phonology; prosody; tempo perception | Arabic; Dutch; English | |
| Sadig, Helen | Language Centre | English for Academic Purposes; English as an Additional Language; language pedagogy | mixed methods; surveys; interviews | English |
| Seijo Richart, Maria | Disabled Student Assessment & Support | transnational cinema, film adaptations, cinema in minority languages and minoritized languages, film and transport | autoethnography, sociolinguistics, surveys, academic filmmaking | English; Spanish; Galician; Portuguese |
| Shepherd, Alison | Education | Participatory pedagogies; critical ESOL | Participatory research; ethnography | English |
| Smith, Eve | Language Centre | EAP; Translanguaging; COIL; TNE; EMI | ethnography; creative practice; participatory research; mixed methods design; analysis of datasets; surveys | English |
| Snell, Julia | School of English | sociolinguistics; educational linguistics | ethnography; spoken discourse analysis; qualitative analysis | English |
| Sotiropoulou Drosopoulou, Christina | School of Psychology | acquired language disorders; bilingualism; English as an Additional Language (EAL); neurolinguistics; psycholinguistics; pragmatics; language processing and representation | experimental methods; reaction times; surveys; questionnaires; semi-structured interviews | English; Greek |
| Stollhans, Sascha | German | Linguistics in language teaching and learning; language pedagogy; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; linguistic diversity; digital language education; language policy | action research; surveys; | English; French; German; |
| Tome Lourido, Gisela | Linguistics and Phonetics | accent bias; accent-based inequalities; bilingualism; phonetics; second language acquisition; sociophonetics; speech perception | acoustic analysis; experimental methods; eye tracking; perception tasks; reaction times; surveys | English; Galician |
| Walkova, Milada | Language Centre | English for Academic Purposes; EAP; academic writing; scholarship of EAP; EAP materials development; doctoral education | discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; genre analysis; materials evaluation | English; Slovak |
| Wang, Binhua | School of Languages Cultures & Societies | interpreting studies; translation studies; interpreter training; interpreting training for advanced-level language learners; English/Chinese interpreting; English/Chinese translation | corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; digital humanities; eye-tracking; multimodal analysis | Chinese |
| Ward, Martin | East Asian Studies | translation pedagogy; collaborative online international learning (COIL); translation and memory; political discourse translation | surveys; focus groups; interviews; | Chinese; Japanese; |
| Watson, Janet | School of Languages Cultures & Societies | dialectology; generative linguistics; linguistic ethnography; morphology; phonetics; phonology | acoustic analysis; ELAN; ethnography; electropalatography; laryngography | Arabic; German; Mehri; Shehret |
| Wright, Clare | Linguistics and Phonetics | bilingualism; language pedagogy; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; fluency | acoustic analysis; grammaticality judgement tests; reaction times; mixed-methods | Chinese; French; Italian; English |
| Xu, Cuie | School of Languages Cultures & Societies | language typology; applied linguistics; syntax; Chinese linguistics; Korean linguistics; contrastive linguistics; second language acquisition | Korean; Chinese; English, German | |
| Zhao, Huahui | Education | assessing language proficiency; English as an additional language (EAL); language pedagogy; second language acquisition; technology enhanced language learning | think-aloud protocols; stimulated recall interviews; surveys; content and interaction analysis; corpus analysis for specific purposes; statistical analysis | English; Chinese |