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  • Our Research

    For the last forty years, we have been known for cutting-edge empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas. We constantly strive to make links with potential users of our work.

  • Research Centres and Groups

    The department hosts active research groups in areas such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language and gender, literacy, pragmatics and stylistics, and second language learning, assessment and teaching.

  • Research Facilities

    The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.

Latest News

ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre

ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre funding success

Congratulations to two students in the Department who have been awarded doctoral funding through the ESRC North West Doctoral Training Centre. 
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New project to examine how primary educators access research to inform teaching

A new major project to examine how primary teachers access and engage with literacy research to inform teaching is underway at Lancaster University.
Camilo Ramos Galvez

British Council Assessment Research Award for PhD student

Language testing student Camilo Ramos Galvez has been awarded a British Council Assessment Research Award to assist with his doctoral research on the diagnosis of English language learners’ academic reading skills.
Svetlana Mazhurnaya and Catherine Hughes

MA students' success in international dissertation award

We are delighted to share the news that two students from the MA in Language Testing programme have been successful in the 2021 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award. Svetlana Mazhurnaya won the award and Catherine Hughes was highly commended.
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The Future of Human Reproduction: Where will tomorrow’s babies come from?

A Lancaster University interdisciplinary research team has been awarded £1 million to investigate conceptual challenges raised by the future of human reproduction.

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Upcoming Events

20th May

Lancaster, Christianity and Transatlantic Slavery: Exploring the Connections

Friday 20 May 2022, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
25th May

Ed Res Seminar Series - ‘You get your training and it’s basically REF, REF, REF’: Unbelonging, exclusion, and the Research Excellence Framework

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
1st Jun

International Conference on Student-led Research & Innovation in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday 1 June 2022, 8:45am to Thursday 2 June 2022, 12:00pm

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