Research Centres & Groups

The department has two research centres, each of which involves permanent teaching and research staff, research associates, research students and visiting research fellows. The department provides research funding to research centres to invite speakers, to initiate pilot research projects and to organise events. Our research centres are:

Within and between these centres are smaller research groups, which offer, amongst other things, regular informal opportunities for discussion of work in progress, and have presentations from research projects and research students in the department and invited visitors from other departments and institutions. Our research groups are:

Language, Ideology & Power

Coordinator: Prof. Ruth Wodak and Shaimaa El Naggar

Meetings: Monday 6–7 pm

Language Testing

Coordinators: Tineke Brunfaut and Luke Harding

Meetings: Thursday 3.30-5pm

Literacy Research

Coordinators: Kathrin Kaufhold and Karin Tusting

Meetings: Tuesday 1–2 pm

Pragmatics and Stylistics

Coordinators: Elena Semino and Helen Hargreaves

Meetings: Either Wednesday 1pm or Friday 1pm