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.
10 June 2026
NEWs, briefings, TEAM
- CASS welcomes XJTU delegation in strategic visit marking new UK–China TNE partnershipLast week, CASS was pleased to welcome a delegation from… Read more: CASS welcomes XJTU delegation in strategic visit marking new UK–China TNE partnership
- A Break in the Clouds: Behind the Scenes of the LU–XJTU Dual Degree Lancaster Video ShootLast Friday, the CASS team filmed the Lancaster segment of… Read more: A Break in the Clouds: Behind the Scenes of the LU–XJTU Dual Degree Lancaster Video Shoot
- CASS Hosts Vice-Chancellor VisitOn Monday 18 May, CASS welcomed Professor Steve Decent, Vice-Chancellor… Read more: CASS Hosts Vice-Chancellor Visit
- Words, Energy and Policy: CASS Presents to the Czech Ambassador and Czech Consul GeneralLancaster University’s recent visit by Czech Ambassador Václav Bartuška and… Read more: Words, Energy and Policy: CASS Presents to the Czech Ambassador and Czech Consul General
- Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centreWe are delighted to offer a full-time, fully funded PhD… Read more: Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centre
- Representations of obesity in the newsWritten by Monika Bednarek and Gavin Brookes. Note: This post… Read more: Representations of obesity in the news
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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.