On June 26 we welcome Professor Rens Bod to give the third Transformative Humanities Lecture 'The Empirical Humanities: An Obscured Tradition with a Bright Future?' Come and Register if you are wondering how Humanities can shape the future! shorturl.at/guG18

NEW FELLOWSHIP FOR 2025
We are delighted to announce a new fellowship opportunity in 2025 to mark the 90th anniversary of the British Council 🎉

We are offering two 12-month Fellowships for international early career researchers (at £2,500 per month) starting in January.
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Every linguistics (audiology, speech therapy, psychology etc) program everywhere on the planet needs to teach this.
Only deaf children may have their right to a fully accessible language denied.
Surely this is a social justice issue all linguists can acknowledge is important?

On 29 May we are welcoming Professor Julia Black to College of Arts+Law for our second Transformative Humanities Lecture “Humanities in a Changing World”. Register here for the talk, and wine reception 1/2 eventbrite.co.uk/e/humanities-i…

TLDR? My PhD thesis is long, and people are busy, so I've summarised the main findings in 4,000 words here: osf.io/9h7rp

Really happy to announce our new (open access) paper was finally published today in Linguistics (journal)!

'Geographic structure of Chinese dialects: A computational dialectometric approach'

doi.org/10.1515/ling-2… 🔓

with He Huang (lead author), Lei Jia and Zhuo Chi

A short 🧵...

NEW 📣

Going to university transforms lives.

Our new campaign ‘100 Faces, First in my Family’ platforms the voices of people who were the first in their family to go to university. 🎉

Hear their stories. 🎤

#100Faces

100faces.universitiesuk.ac.uk

The LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee is working on a report concerning the state of linguistic research in the UK.

We have put together a 15-minutes survey, available at forms.office.com/e/syH3f7pj6a

Today we had our Birmingham Linguistics Postgraduate Conference 2024. Thank you so much for our guest speaker Dr Samantha Ford (Sammy), all presenters and audiences. Look forward to BLP2025 next year! ELAL@UoB

Highlight of #ccrss24 : the Sinclair Lecture by Dawn Knight on Monday, 15 July, with the title of 'Applying Corpus Linguistics: impacts of corpus research in a minoritised language context'. The Lecture is open to the public. #SinclairLecture
birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/…

Just out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Open Access): our new paper on transparency and accountability in corpus-based discourse analysis (by Monika Bednarek (she/her) 🌈, Martin Schweinberger, and Kelvin Lee): degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Wondering how the #humanities can contribute to addressing contemporary global challenges? Come to join our next high-profile lecture on May 2024 given by Professor Julia Black! Looking forward to seeing there! rb.gy/wujevv

Linguistic typology is the study of the grammatical diversity in the world’s languages, the recurring patterns we see amongst that diversity, and why those patterns exist.

Want to learn more? I’ve put together a list of resources to get you started:

linguisticdiscovery.com/typology

🌍 Do we have 'English', or 'Englishes'?
🔗 Find out in Babel No1 at tinyurl.com/3rs5m2wx
🎁 Request a free print Babel No1 - [email protected]

#circlesofenglish #english #english language #globalenglish #english es #linguistics #language #language s

baal.org.uk/baal-2024-conf… Tomorrow is the last day to submit an abstract to #BAAL2024 #AppliedLinguistics - come and see us at the University of Essex.

Our annual Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place in July this year. As in the past few years, it will be fully online. Come join us! #ccrss24

New Cambridge Element Narrative and Religion in the Superdiverse City by @stephenpihlaja is now free to read for 2 weeks!
cup.org/4cNvjrz
#cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

How is Sign Language?

If you missed Professor Adam Schembri's (Adam Schembri) Inaugural lecture last month - it's now available to watch!

Discover the Uni of Birmingham lecture here:👉🏼youtu.be/Bb5JfwziYMM

Looking forward to the LANDS symposium on “Generative AI, language and Society” on Thursday May 16.

I'll give a talk on using Large Language Models for linguistic analysis.

The event will be streamed live. Sign up for free here: ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-the-…

In the latest PGR Development blog, School of EDACS & ELAL@UoB Postgraduate Researcher Sophia Butt reflected on the spirit of Ramadan in postgraduate research

Discover Sophia's insights: uobpgrdevelopment.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/the…