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| Name | Affiliation | Areas of expertise | Research methods | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmadian, Mohammad | Education | language pedagogy; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | experimental methods | Farsi (Persian) |
| Aliaga-Salas, Loreto | Education | language comprehension; language pedagogy; second language acquisition; language teacher education | ethnography; classroom observations; stimulated recall | English; Spanish |
| Allen, Richard | Psychology | memory and learning | experimental methods | |
| Atwell, Eric | Computing | computational linguistics; corpus linguistics; dialectology; morphology; natural language processing; prosody; semantics; syntax; systemic functional linguistics; text analytics | corpus linguistics; data mining; experimental methods | Arabic; English |
| Bradford, Terry | French | intercultural competence; interpreting; language comprehension; language pedagogy; lexis; text genres; translation | experimental methods; surveys | French |
| Brunetto, Valentina | Linguistics & Phonetics | first language acquisition; psycholinguistics; semantics; syntax | ||
| Cerda, Yolanda | Language Centre | communication; corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; discourse; intercultural competence; language pedagogy; linguistic ethnography; narratives; sociolinguistics | ethnography; corpus linguistics | English; Spanish |
| Clarke, Paula | Education | language comprehension | randomised controlled trials (for language intervention) | English |
| Daraselia, Sophiko | Linguistics & Phonetics | corpus linguistics; morphology; semantics; syntax | corpus linguistics | Georgian; Laz; Megrelian |
| Davies, Catherine | Linguistics & 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 & Phonetics | assessing language proficiency; bilingualism; cognitive development; English as an Additional Language (EAL); first language acquisition; generative linguistics; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition; syntax | corpus linguistics; electroencephalography (ERPs); experimental methods; eye tracking; grammaticality judgement tests; reaction times | English; French; Spanish |
| de Pauw, Denise | Language Centre | literacy as social practice; digital literacy practices; language, migration, education, employability | ethnography; activity theory; mediated discourse analysis | English |
| Diana Ahmad, Nor | Computing | computational linguistics; corpus linguistics; natural language processing; semantics | corpus linguistics; natural language processing | Malay |
| Dickins, James | Arabic, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | axiomatic functionalism; dialectology; translation | corpus linguistics | Arabic; Sudanese Arabic |
| El-Farahaty, Hanem | Centre for Translation Studies | corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; discourse; forensic linguistics; interpreting; multimodality; translation | corpus linguistics | Arabic |
| Evans, Melanie | 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 |
| Greatley-Hirsch, Brett | English | Early Modern English; computational stylistics; authorship attribution | natural language processing; historical corpora; data mining | English |
| Gunning, Lydia | Education | assessing language proficiency; bilingualism; communication; English as an Additional Language (EAL); first language acquisition; language comprehension; narratives; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | English | |
| Hanks, Judith | Education | communication; language pedagogy; linguistic ethnography; narratives; translanguaging; teacher education; English for academic purposes | ethnography; multimodal analysis; exploratory practice; practitioner research; participatory research | English; Galician; German; Italian; Chinese |
| Havelka, Jelena | Psychology | bilingualism; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | experimental methods; reaction times | Serbian; Spanish |
| Klepousniotou, Ekaterini | Psychology | acquired language disorders; assessing language proficiency; bilingualism; language comprehension; lexis; neurolinguistics; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; semantics; typical and atypical language development, language production, language processing and representation | electroencephalography (ERPs); experimental methods; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); reaction times; surveys; transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); rating studies, questionnaires | English; French; Greek |
| Martinez-Arboleda, Antonio | Languages, Cultures and Societies | 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 |
| Nash, Hannah | Psychology | assessing language proficiency; developmental language disorder; first language acquisition; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | electroencephalography (ERPs); experimental methods | |
| Norton, Chris | Linguistics & Phonetics | English for Academic Purposes; language pedagogy; psycholinguistics | corpus linguistics; data mining; eye tracking; reaction times | English |
| Pinto, Sara Ramos | Centre for Translation Studies | audio-visual translation; dialectology; discourse; multimodality; sociolinguistics; translation | experimental methods; eye tracking | Portuguese |
| Pischedda, Pier | Linguistics & 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 & Phonetics | conversation analysis; language change; phonetics; phonology; prosody; tempo perception | Arabic; Dutch; English | |
| Smith, Eve | Language Centre | EAP; Translanguaging; COIL; TNE; EMI | ethnography; creative practice; participatory research; mixed methods design; analysis of datasets; surveys | English |
| Sotiropoulou Drosopoulou, Christina | 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 & Phonetics | language pedagogy; Second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; digital language education; assessing language proficiency; | action research; surveys; | English; French; German; |
| Tomé Lourido, Gisela | Linguistics & 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 | discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; genre analysis | English; Slovak |
| Wang, Binhua | Centre for Translation Studies | interpreter training; interpreting training and advanced-level language learners; interpreting studies; translation studies; English/Chinese interpreting; English/Chinese translation | corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; systemic functional linguistics; eye-tracking; multimodal analysis | Chinese |
| Waterman, Amanda | Psychology | cognitive development; interaction between motor and cognitive development; memory and learning | experimental methods | |
| Watson, Janet C.E. | Arabic, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies | dialectology; generative linguistics; linguistic ethnography; morphology; phonetics; phonology | acoustic analysis; ELAN; ethnography; electropalatography; laryngography | Arabic; German; Mehri; Shehret |
| Wright, Clare | Linguistics & Phonetics | bilingualism; language pedagogy; psycholinguistics; second language acquisition | acoustic analysis; grammaticality judgement tests; reaction times | Chinese; French; Italian |
| Zhao, Huahui | Education | assessing language proficiency; English as an additional language (EAL); language pedagogy; second language acquisition; technology enhanced language learning | think-aloud protocols; surveys; content and interaction analysis | English |