.UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social is calling for nominations to the following roles on the Executive Committee: - Vice Chair Research - Vice Chair External Engagement and Communications - 6-month Project Coordinator Replacement - Early Career Academic Representative - Slavonic and East European

Plenty of news reporting today on the research by our colleagues Ian Collen 🇪🇺 and Dr Jayne Duff on language learning in schools in Northern Ireland. Read the full report of their British Council funded research here: tinyurl.com/mr6d37p4

🎉We launched the latest #LanguageTrendsNI report today at Cliftonville Integrated Primary School! Tune in to @BBCNewsline this evening to hear highlights from the report - and hear directly from the pupils, including some of the school's inspiring international ambassadors.🌍

We’re in Maynooth today for this exciting conference on challenging gendered discourses on academic disciplines #LoveQUB

Attending the #LanguageTrendsNI 2025 launch by British Council Northern Ireland & Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's yesterday was an opportuinity to learn about the common issues we face on MFL and Home, Heritage and Community languages education, and it highlighted opportunities for future collaborations

World CLIL 2025 is kicking off today, promising to be an inspiring event for teachers, researchers, educators and policy makers. Looking forward to meeting everyone here over the next two days.

World CLIL 2025 kicks off with lots of papers and workshops to learn and share Post-Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) Languages Connect Consejería de Educación Reino Unido e Irlanda EmbajadEspañaIrlanda UPSA

Fantastic to be co-organising #WorldCLIL with Post-Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) and Celine Healy on behalf of Queen's University Belfast 🎓. The eager beavers were laying out goody bags for almost 200 delegates last night!

Read the latest Language Trends England 2025 report by Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's SSESW at Queen's members Ian Collen 🇪🇺 and Dr Jayne Duff here:

Fewer pupils in less affluent English schools taking languages, survey by ⁦Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's⁩ members ⁦Ian Collen 🇪🇺⁩ and ⁦Dr Jayne Duff⁩ finds theguardian.com/education/2025…

Research by Centre for Language Education Research at Queen's SSESW at Queen's making the headlines today! Language GCSE entries much lower in less affluent schools tes.com/magazine/news/…

I’m looking forward to being a keynote speaker at the 3rd International Sociolinguistic Research Symposium (TARA 2025), October 30 – November 1 2025, at Dicle University in Diyarbakır, Türkiye. In this talk, I will present my current research on the sociolinguistics of Islam

While this paper was accepted back in Feb, the published version is just now online – ‘Ecologies of Research Writing in Chinese Universities' with Xiajing Chen (陈夏菁). I hope it's useful for those who study #AcadsWriting and Chinese #HigherEd. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Congratulations to LIFELANGS: Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland – a joint project between Trinity College Dublin and Queen's University Belfast 🎓 - who have been recommended for funding under Call 2 of the North South Research Programme #SharedIslandUnit

Delighted and privileged to be part of the QUB team led by Aisling O'Boyle to receive this large grant from North-South Research Programme. Looking forward to getting started with new colleagues Trinity College Dublin 🌟 #LIFELANGS

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📣 Exciting announcement is now here! 🌟 Launch of ALL Languages NI Network with Crista and Steven Fawkes at 4.30pm on 17 Sept, The Great Hall Queen's University Belfast 🎓 . RSVP to reserve your ticket 🎫 forms.office.com/e/jteneX4hu2

New NI network for languages!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ALL Languages NI Network. Launch 17 Sept Queen's University Belfast 🎓