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PGR Group

Our main activities are:

  • Presentations. We welcome presentations of research at any stage. For more information, or if you are interested in presenting your work, please see PGR presentations page.
  • Training sessions and student-led workshops. These are designed to help students with anything from software to theories, in response to the specific needs of our L@L community.  See our forthcoming and past training events here.
  • Guest speakers will be invited to talk about their areas of specialism and present the most recent developments in language-related research.
  • Finally, our research group works in collaboration with the L@L Working Papers Editorial Team. L@LWP is an online, peer-reviewed Journal.  

For up-to-date information about our presentations and other events, please keep an eye on our ‘News and Events’ section below. Our ‘Blog’ section will also be updated regularly with a summary of our activities and insights or ideas sparked by our discussions.

If you would like to join the group or if you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Kelly or Nathalie.

Events

Writing Meetup with Special Guest Speaker

We are thrilled to invite you to an exciting writing meetup at the Edward Boyle Library, a fantastic opportunity to...

Get together Lunch - Language@Leeds PGR Community

Are you working on or interested in language or a language-related topic? Would you like to connect with other PGRs...

Seminar series connecting the themes of the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems and the Extinction Studies doctoral training program

The first talk in this series will be given by Professor Helen Roy from the UK Centre for Ecology &...

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News

Looking for a PGR Rep

Would you like to co-lead the L@L PGR Group? Do you have a supervisee who would? The L@L PGR Group...

Welcome to new and continuing Language@Leeds PGRs!

The first Language@Leeds PGR event took place last Thursday 12 October 2023 and it was a huge success! Around 40...

Extinction Studies DTP

Thea Pitman, Diane Nelson and Janet Watson are on the supervisory team for the new Leverhulme-funded Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme (PL Graham Huggan)....

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Blog

L@L PGR Launch Event

On Wednesday, 12th February, we kicked things off with our PGR Launch Event. To an audience composed of both PGRs and supervisors, we presented the mission and aims of our Group, highlighting, from the very start, the interdisciplinary approach which is going to be at the heart of our activities. The main goal is, in particular, to engage PGRs from different schools and departments and create a ‘forum’ based on our common interest in Language.
An important part of the discussion was devoted to PGR presentations, which will be one of our core activities. These sessions are meant to be a unique opportunity for Language@Leeds PGRs to discuss their work in a friendly and supportive environment. As early-career researchers, we know how crucial it is to receive constructive feedback on ongoing projects and build our presentation skills in preparation for conferences. We also announced that our first round of presentations will take place at the end of March and we invited anyone who might be interested to think about this great opportunity.
For the second part of our Launch Event, we all had tea and coffee together while discussing the future of the L@L PGR Group. In particular, everyone had a chance to talk about their training needs and topics of interest, which was critical because these will form the basis of activities such as workshops, seminars and talks by guest speakers. In order to do that, we had already emailed, prior to the event, a link to an online whiteboard application, so that everybody could share their thoughts or ideas beforehand. Our tech-savvy Lisa also generated a QR code, which we used during the event to facilitate access to the whiteboard from everybody’s phone.
Although the event was only one hour long, the message was clear: we all share a strong passion for language research and, perhaps just as importantly, we all love tea! But whereas the latter was not too much of a surprise, we were really pleased with the wide range of ideas put forward to revive our Group; from workshops on quantitative data analysis, talks on machine translation and interpreting, through to language and social justice, and support with post-doctoral applications, the diversity of our PGR research community seemed to be well represented.
The afternoon concluded with a summary of all the suggestions and other points that were raised during the event. Because of the number of proposals, we decided to send out a survey, in order to give everyone an opportunity to vote their favourite ideas. This will help our organising committee plan the next sessions and make them as relevant and interesting as possible.
In conclusion, we are really grateful to all those who came along to our Launch Event and we are looking forward to meeting even more PGRs. If you have not completed our survey yet, you can find it here; also, we now have a dedicated group on Yammer (join us here)! We will soon be announcing some new additions to our organising committee and the names of the first presenters for the March PGR presentation session. Stay tuned and feel free to get in touch at any time!
Giulio

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