The 2025 LAEL Research Colloquium took place on Thursday 8 May 2025. The event featured colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster. Around 75 staff and students attended and the programme of talks can be found below.

• Sebastian Muth: How are we supposed to know he didn’t understand a thing?” Language assistance at prisons in England and Wales
• Veronika Koller: Emotions of supporters and opponents of populist parties across Europe: Evidence from social media discourse
• Silke Brandt: Cross-linguistic differences in mental-state language and Theory of Mind development
• John Pill: Investigating test-user perspectives to foster language assessment literacy: the case of UK regulatory bodies
• Dana Gablasova, Raffaella Bottini, Vaclav Brezina, Luke Harding: The EMI Corpus of Student Academic Writing and Reading: A new resource in EAP materials design
• Diane Potts: Young children's engagement with AI image generators in the writing classroom
• Luke Collins: Replicability with AI: analysing automated image tags using corpus methods
• Chris Hart: Using AI Tools to investigate the visual representation of refugees and migrants on the internet