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On Tuesday 10 June 2026, the Language@Leeds PGR Group hosted a beginner-level R training workshop targeting social scientists led by Dr Chris Norton. The session brought together 16 postgraduate researchers from across the University for an introduction to R and its applications in research. The two-hour workshop focused on learning through practice. PGRs were guided...
Following the strong enthusiasm for the Research Pitch Perfect event, the Language@Leeds PGR community brought it back this semester. The event was held in the Emmanuel Centre at the University of Leeds led by L@L research intern Mian Feng, once again creating a supportive space for postgraduate researchers to develop their research communication skills. PGRs...
The first PGR event of the 2025/26 academic year was successfully held by the Language@Leeds PGR Reps Mian Feng, Gergely Kajos, and Annabel Pickard on 13 November in the Michael Sadler Building at the University of Leeds. We gathered an enthusiastic group of postgraduate researchers to explore how to communicate research clearly, confidently, and creatively,...
All researchers and scholars working on language-related projects at the University of Leeds are invited to submit a poster (or several posters) about their research and scholarship projects. The showcase, entitled: "Language research to address regional and global challenges", will be an in-person public event held at Nexus on 1 April 2025, 4-6:30pm. Guidance Please...
The more time pre-schoolers spent in childcare during the first year of the pandemic, the more their vocabulary grew, a new study has found.
This is a call for expressions of interest from members of BAAL to join BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group (SIG), re-launched at BAAL Conference 2023 in York. See attached slides. The SIG’s key aims are: To facilitate networking between people who are interested in language teaching and learning To bring together colleagues...
The first Language@Leeds PGR event took place last Thursday 12 October 2023 and it was a huge success! Around 40 PGRs from 7 different Schools met over lunch to connect and discuss interests, challenges and opportunities. The L@L PGR Reps, Kelly and Nathalie, are already planning the next event: a writing retreat. Hope to see...
Findings from the DART project have demonstrated the potential of computerised dynamic tasks of decoding and vocabulary learning to improve screening for reading difficulties especially in children with English as an Additional Language. https://dart.leeds.ac.uk/findings/
The recording of this invited talk by Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) is available through this link.
Janet Watson has been awarded a British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant, which will fund a Yemeni ECR scholar to come to Leeds for nine months and work on the rich traditional ecopoetics of the endangered Modern South Arabian language, Mehri, as spoken in al-Mahrah in Yemen. The fellow will be supervised...