You will be so missed, William! Thank you everything from everyone in CASS and Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project

We will miss you so much, Tara! Thank you for everything from everyone in CASS and Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project

This evening at the Storey Institute in Lancaster, double-act by Rachel Isba Rachel Isba and myself on the last day of World Immunisation Week - part of RSChem Lancashire Public Lecture series: 'Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?' eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-isba-s…

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Elena Semino Paul Rayson IOELC 4D Picture #Cancer #Cancer Research

'When we talk about vaccines, we can make a difference.'

Thanks to the Lancaster University Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project team for a great webinar on what linguistic analysis can tell us about communicating vaccinations.

#WorldImmunisationWeek

I’ve given this talk on failure in academia several times, but never in Lancaster. Packed room of our students and colleagues for this today.

Today at 1.00 we're presenting our Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project findings at this webinar.

A little blog post on Shakespeare’s birthday ukri.org/blog/shakespea… Arts and Humanities Research Council Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Project

Findings from Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project will be presented at 2 public lectures during World Immunisation week: in Lancaster on 30/4 lancaster.ac.uk/events/vaccina…; online on 26/4 as part of the Royal Society for Public Health webinar series rsph.org.uk/event/communic…. You can still sign up for both

University of Melbourne with the Synergy Research Alliance for Youth Disability & Mental Health project.

CASS colleague Elena Semino and I are offering linguistic expertise to investigate representations of youth with disability. Enjoying the opportunity to meet the team!

A brand new version of the popular corpus linguistics tool #LancsBox X v. 4.0.0 is now available as part of CASS extensive innovation programme:

-ngrams and skipgrams
-new visualizations
- export corpora
- lightning fast searches

lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk

Last UG Offer Holder Day of the year in Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni today, with taster lectures on Shakespeare’s language by Jonathan Culpeper and language acquisition by Silke Brandt

Every time a league table comes out, as academics, we struggle about what to do with the results, no matter whether they're good or bad

Why?

Well, league tables are far from perfect. Doesn't matter the league. Doesn't matter the table. It has problems. Guaranteed

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We had fun working Campus in the City today in Morecambe! Ultrasounded a lot of children as part of a team effort from Lancaster University Phonetics Lab Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni. Thanks Justin Lo for organising us! More Music Lancaster Impact Acceleration

Great to see my article on #phonics live on The Conversation. Co-authored with Gee Macrory (MMU) and Cathie Wallace (UCL) the article was prompted by Holly Bancroft’s recent piece on #literacy in The The Independent. 1/6
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Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni will be in Morecambe on Thursday with not 1, not 2, not 3… but 4 activities for you!!

🤖 Can you tell if a voice is bot or not?
🧠 How good is your mind reading?
👅 Want to see how your tongue moves in speech?
🗺️ How have dialects in Lancashire changed over the years?

We are delighted to have been ranked the third best Linguistics department in the world according to the QS World University Rankings! QS Top Universities Lancaster University

lancaster.ac.uk/news/world-top…

According to the QS Top Universities ranking, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni, my academic home, is the third best Linguistics department in the world.

We could discuss rankings now, but today, I am just proud of this collective achievement. 😊

lancaster.ac.uk/news/world-top…

We’re very proud to have 11 of our subjects ranked in the global top 100, with linguistics (Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni) placed third in the world! Find out more about the new QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 released today

#QSWUR | QS World University Rankings

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Out now: A scoping review of research on language and #dementia stigma, expertly led by Emma Putland, in the Journal of Language and Ageing Research. You can read it #openaccess here: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup2/jlar/arti… Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni FASS Research Lancaster University