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    Mar
    2019
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    Mar
    2019

    Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions

    Lancaster University - Conference Centre

    Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions

    4th-6th March 2019, Lancaster University

    The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University, will hold a free event on interactions between linguists and private-sector organisations, on 4th, 5th and 6th March 2019. A series of invited speakers from academia and business will discuss experiences, challenges and opportunities in areas including publishing, IT, forensic analysis, organisational culture, marketing, financial reporting, and language teaching, learning and assessment.

    Thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), attendance is free, but registration in advance is required, as places are limited. It is possible to register for one, two or all three days of the event.

    You can apply to attend here, no later than 8th February. We will let you know as soon as possible if you have been able to secure a place.

    Organiser: Professor Elena Semino
    Contact for all enquiries: Isolde Van Dorst - i.vandorst@lancaster.ac.uk
    Venue: Training Room, Lancaster Conference Centre, Lancaster House Hotel. Directions to campus and campus map.


    Download the programme from here: CASS Business Boost event - programme

    March 2019

    9.00 Registration
    9.25 Welcome: Elena Semino
    9.30 Louise Mullany (School of English and Director of Linguistic Profiling for Professionals, University of Nottingham):

    Opportunities and Challenges: Linguistics as Consultancy
    10.10 Isobelle Clarke (Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham):

    Investigative Linguistics in the Private Sector: Receiving Requests, Taking Cases and the Challenges in Building a Reputation
    10.50 Coffee
    11.10 Georgina Brown (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    Working with business to innovate new methodologies in forensic speech science
    11.50 Kenneth Church (Baidu Research):

    Corpus Methods in a Digitized World
    12.30 Lunch
    1.40 Steven Young (Department of Accounting and Finance, Lancaster University Management School):

    Unstructured Data in Financial Reporting: Implications for Practitioners and Policy Makers
    2.20 Claire Hardaker (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    The curious world of (forensic) consultancy research: or, knowing when to say “no thanks”
    3.00 Tea
    3.20 Patrick Hanks (Research Institute for Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton):

    Greed, Risk, and Mutual Deception:  some indiscreet reminiscences 

    • Can academics work with publishers and IT companies?
    • Can publishers and IT companies work with universities?
    4.00 Tony McEnery (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    The ups and downs of engagement - linguistics and the impact agenda
    4.40 Concluding remarks
    5.00 Close

     

    5th March 2019

    9.15 Registration
    9.45 Welcome: Elena Semino
    9.50 Alison Mackey (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University; Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    Applying second language research in the private sector: From tech companies to independent schools
    10.30 Coffee
    11.00 Abby Brody (Avenues: The World School):

    Linguistic research reshaping the private sector of education. A case study of Avenues: The World School
    11.40 Judit Kormos (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University)

    Promoting inclusive practices in educational publishing and second language assessment
    12.20 Lunch
    1.40 Claire Dembry (Cambridge University Press):

    ELT publishing and linguists: successes, challenges and future possibilities
    2.20 Vaclav Brezina (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    Corpora and language teaching and learning: Translating research into impact
    3.00 Tea
    3.30 Cathy Taylor (Trinity College London)

    The Spoken Learner Corpus (SLC) project: a collaboration between Trinity College London and CASS, Lancaster University
    4.10 John Pill (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    How test developers and domain experts collaborate to create relevant language tests
    4.50 Concluding remarks
    5.00 Close

     

    6th March 2019

    9.15 Registration
    9.45 Welcome: Elena Semino
    9.50 Colleen Cotter (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London):

    Journalists and academics talk about language: Bridging the "professional divide" 
    10.30 Coffee
    11.00 Veronika Koller (Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University):

    Healthcare, linguistics and consulting: opportunities and obstacles
    11.40 Jeannette Littlemore (Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham):

    Working with marketing and communications agencies on their use of figurative messaging.
    12.20 Lunch
    1.50 Gill Ereaut (Linguistic Landscapes):

    Making organisational culture tangible through linguistics: practical consulting for organisations
    2.30 Sandra Pickering (Opento):

    Building compelling brands: the role of language in the marketing toolkit 
    3.10 Tea
    3.40 Dan McIntyre and Hazel Price (Department of Linguistics, University of Huddersfield):

    Language Unlocked: A Linguistic Consultancy
    4.20 Short break
    4.30 Deborah Tannen (Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University – via video link):

    Beyond the Academy: Communicating Linguistics to the Broader Public
    5.10 Concluding remarks
    5.30 Close