Research
Languages and Linguistics Research Group
This research group is led by Dr Clare Cunningham.
This group aims to complement the work of another research group in our subject area, the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research
We do this by offering a space to nurture a very broad range of linguistics and languages-related research and its researchers.
The focus of the group's activities, therefore, is development, involving regular scheduled 'Research Conversations' in which we take it in turns to be a 'conversation starter' on a pressing topic for research development or for the discipline.
We currently have research projects ongoing focused on:
- Motivation in language learning
- Ecolinguistics
- The acquisition of phonology in childhood
- Institutional and professional discourses in multinational or multilingual contexts
- Cross-linguistic awareness in young language learners
Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of projects.
Get in touch
We encourage applications from prospective postgraduate research students across a range of linguistically-related topics, from more theoretically or structurally based language and linguistic research to highly applied and activist-applied linguistics.
Group members
Dr Clare Cunningham
Group leader, Associate Professor
Professor Chris Hall
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Professor Helen Sauntson
Professor of English Language and Linguistics
Professor Rachel Wicaksono
Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics
Dr Dai O'Brien
Associate Professor in British Sign Language
Dr Leesa Clarke
Associate Head: Language and Linguistics
Nikki Swift
Associate Head: Language and Linguistics
Dr Kyoungmi Kim
Senior Lecturer
Dr Yeji Han
Senior Lecturer
Dr Chisato Danjo
Senior Lecturer
Dr Indu Meddegama
Senior Lecturer
Dr Kate Whisker-Taylor
Senior Lecturer
Dr Maja Skender-Lizatovic
Lecturer
Dr Hana Jee
Lecturer
Dr Daniel Edmondson
Lecturer
Dr Sara Librenjak
Lecturer