Building on an initial five year investment by the ESRC, CASS is committed to work for 15 years to train a new generation of social sciences researchers to use these techniques, and to facilitate the uptake of corpus techniques in the social sciences.
corpus approach
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University is a world leader in corpus linguistics: a powerful method of computational analysis of vast amounts of language data.
NEWs, briefings, TEAM
- CASS Research Centre Hosts British Council VisitThe CASS Research Centre recently hosted a visit from Mina Patel, Head of Research, Future of English at the British Council.
- Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centreWe are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD studentship… Read more: Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centre
- My Research Stay at Lancaster UniversityBy Janine Dengler, Universität Heidelberg Who am I and what… Read more: My Research Stay at Lancaster University
- Big Screens, Bigger Data: Reflections on a Lecture Trip to ChinaNovember 2025 marked another exciting visit to China, showcasing the… Read more: Big Screens, Bigger Data: Reflections on a Lecture Trip to China
- Free Lancaster lectures on corpus linguisticsIf you’re interested in accessible lectures from the traditional Lancaster… Read more: Free Lancaster lectures on corpus linguistics
- Free Online Lectures on Corpus linguistics – Language & TechnologyWe are pleased to invite you to join a series… Read more: Free Online Lectures on Corpus linguistics – Language & Technology
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What do we do
Corpus Informed Social Sciences
External funding
£18.5m
People trained
80K
Publications
602
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Featured Projects
Corpus Approaches to Health(care) Communication
Our largest ESRC-funded research programme extends the facilitative and transformative power of corpus methods to the study of health (care) communication.
The British National Corpus (2014)
The British National Corpus 2014 is a major project led by Lancaster University to create a 100 million word corpus (a large collection of ‘real life’ language) of modern-day British English.
Trinity Lancaster Corpus
The aim of this project is to create a large corpus of learner (and examiner) speech which will be used in a wide range of research contexts including Second Language Acquisition, language testing, L2 pedagogy and material development etc.