The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis. These facilities are used by undergraduate students, postgraduate students and staff for a variety of research projects.
All students in the Sociology Discipline, including at both undergraduate and graduate programs, are automatically registered and able to access technology from the Digital Media Studio. Equipment that comprises this studio enhances how students and staff engage with cultural theories and practical skills to meet the aims of producing critical and digitally literate citizens.
The Lancaster Linguistics Eye-tracking Lab is dedicated to research that makes use of eye-tracking as part of its methodology. Our facilities are used by staff, as well as by students working in the areas of language testing, second language acquisition, and psycholinguistics.
Eye-tracking Lab
The Phonetics Lab is directed by Dr Sam Kirkham and Dr Claire Nance. Our facilities are used by staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and visiting students and staff. Lab research strengths include sociophonetics, speech acoustics, articulatory phonetics, and statistical methods.
Phonetics Lab
The Brain and Bilingual Experience Lab (BaBEL) is the EEG lab at Lancaster University. Our facilities enable and facilitate research by staff and students into the neural basis of language and cognition. BaBEL is co-directed by Professor Jason Rothman and Dr Aina Casaponsa.
Brain and Bilingual Experience
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) is one of the world leading research centres in corpus linguistics. The centre develops large corpora (e.g. The British National Corpus 2014, Trinity Lancaster Corpus), creates cutting-edge software tools (e.g. #LancsBox, CQPweb, Lancaster Stats Tools online) and produces high-impact research. It also organises corpus linguistics training events in the UK and internationally.
ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS)