I'm currently advertising a short 10-month post-doc. Suitable for somebody with experience in dynamical modelling, speech dynamics and/or computational neuroscience. The job can be (somewhat) flexible to fit the right candidate's skillset. Deadline 23 Sep! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

We're celebrating our 125th Anniversary by investing in the future; over the next five years we are appointing 125 Anniversary Fellows and Chairs. Let's meet some of them...

We're looking for a Lecturer in Linguistics at Birmingham City University with expertise in Grammar (essential) and TEFL (desirable) jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Latest paper from our team - and our first registered report - with @LauRomain ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕟 and Dagmar Divjak now out in Language Learning, open access! College of Arts+Law School of EDACS Ling&Comm@UoB

Lingling Xu is presenting on whether, and how, the strength of L1 influence varies across different senses of 'in' at #LCR2024! Ling&Comm@UoB

Really enjoyed talking to teachers at UoB School with Katy Lockett about accommodating pupils who are new to English. There’s little that is more fun than talking to a bunch of teachers because they participate ENTHUSIASTICALLY in ALL the activities 😍

Please consider joining us in Birmingham in July 2025 for the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference, co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University and Uni of Birmingham! Call for papers now live: cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers #CL2025

🎉 Fantastic news: We continue to rise amongst the world's prestigious universities - we’ve been ranked 93rd in the World University Rankings 2025! This sits alongside our ranking of 80th in the QS World University Rankings. Read more: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/univ…

New paper out on fake news language research today w Matteo Fuoli and Bashayer بشائر باعيسى, who led this project, which comes out of a fantastic recently defended PhD here at Ling&Comm@UoB! Please take a look! doi.org/10.1177/175048…

The Applied Linguistics Pathway is offered by Uni of Birmingham Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN University of Warwick Warwick Applied Linguistics College of Social Sciences Ling&Comm@UoB

And a big shout out for the University of Birmingham Uni of Birmingham who have lit up Old Joe clock tower Old Joe to raise awareness of DLD #DLDday every single year since 2021! Very proud! #DevLangDis

This is exciting! Looking forward to having a read of all the chapters in this book. Metaphor research really is an interdisciplinary endeavour! RaAM Ling&Comm@UoB

We agree 😊

Back from a really enjoyable corpus linguistics conference “New data, new theories” Shanghai Jiao Tong University organised by Fengchao Zhen and Michael Barlow. Wonderful to see the interest in joining up corpus and cognition and the strong connection with Ling&Comm@UoB LCAHM_UoB School of EDACS

Thank you Chen Wang!

New paper now out, Open Access: A foreign accent protects against being penalised for grammatical errors, depending on personality type ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕣 𝕄𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕟 Hui Sun The Leverhulme Trust Ling&Comm@UoB @LCAHM_UoB School of EDACS UoB Library Services UoB Advanced Research Computing (BEAR) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Great to see this study, by our very own Bodo Winter and Marcus Perlman and their colleagues, in the news! theguardian.com/science/2024/n…

We are also now on 🦋: you can find us there Carol Goudy.bsky.social!

Come work with us in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at Uni of Birmingham!

The MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling is now open for registration! This is a fantastic opportunity for burgeoning linguists to gain experience in computational modelling for the language sciences. Learn more and register: medal.ut.ee/event/medal-su…