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Professor Alice Deignan AHRC Grant Award

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Alice Deignan has just been awarded £144k under the AHRC 'Translating cultures' theme for a project called 'Translating Science for Young People', PI Alice Deignan (School of Education, Leeds), Co-Is Indira Banner (School of Education, Leeds) and Elena Semino (Lancaster University). It is funded by a Research Innovation Grant under the AHRC's 'Translating Cultures' theme. The project starts from January 1st 2015 and will run for 20 months. The School of Education will be recruiting a part-time (0.6) post doctoral Research Fellow to the project. The project brings together linguistic and science education expertise from Leeds and Lancaster.

Language@Leeds Event on Multimodality in Language Research

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Last week’s event for ECRs and PGRs, sponsored by the British Academy and organised by Janet Watson, Shirley-Anne Paul (Education), Sara Ramos Pinto (CTS), Cat Davies and Jack Wilson (both Linguistics), was a resounding success.

Monthly Lunchtime Research Discussions

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Language at Leeds will be running a monthly lunchtime research discussion meeting over the academic year to explore interdisciplinary approaches to language research and look at innovative ways of collaboration. Meetings will be led by language researchers from across the University. Suggestions for presenters are welcome!

Dr Serge Sharoff Research Grant Success

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Congratulations to Serge Sharoff (CTS), who has been awarded a two-year grant from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), value £216,411, to conduct a project entitled: PALODIEM, Process Automation for Localisation of Dialogue in Entertainment Media.

Multimodality in language research

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The British Academy is funding a regional ECR event on Multimodality in language research at the University of Leeds, 24-26 June 2014.

Linguistics in Arabia

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There was strong representation from Language at Leeds at the first Linguistics in Arabia conference, held at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah on 4-5 December.