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Words, Energy and Policy: CASS Presents to the Czech Ambassador and Czech Consul General
Lancaster University’s recent visit by Czech Ambassador Václav Bartuška and Consul General David Frous offered an important opportunity for researchers at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) to demonstrate how corpus linguistics can contribute to understanding major societal and policy challenges – including one of the defining issues of our time:…
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Representations of obesity in the news
Written by Monika Bednarek and Gavin Brookes. Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University. It is published under a Creative Commons — Attribution Noncommercial license. If you want to republish it, please follow the relevant licensing guidelines.…
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CASS Research Centre Hosts British Council Visit
The CASS Research Centre recently hosted a visit from Mina Patel, Head of Research, Future of English at the British Council.
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Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centre
We are delighted to offer a fully funded PhD studentship available to both UK and international candidates. CASS has been awarded a prestigious North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) PhD studentship, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), to begin in October 2026. We are seeking outstanding candidates with experience in…
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My Research Stay at Lancaster University
By Janine Dengler, Universität Heidelberg Who am I and what is my research about? I am a research assistant and PhD candidate in the research project “Moralizations in Science Communication – Causes, Forms, and Effects”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in the Department of German Language and Literature at…
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Big Screens, Bigger Data: Reflections on a Lecture Trip to China
November 2025 marked another exciting visit to China, showcasing the work of CASS, including a brand new version of #LancsBox X with a Chinese UI, which will be released in 2026. If there were one metaphor to capture the essence of the trip, it would be this: the screens keep getting bigger. Compared to previous…
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Free Lancaster lectures on corpus linguistics
If you’re interested in accessible lectures from the traditional Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025, covering a wide range of topics, you can watch them online from the links below. You can also join us for the Corpus MOOC 🎓—a free, 8-week online course, now newly available on the edX platform 🌐: Corpus Linguistics…
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Free Online Lectures on Corpus linguistics – Language & Technology
We are pleased to invite you to join a series of free, livestreamed public lectures during the week of 16 June 2025, as part of the International Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025. Monday 16 June1-2pm UK time Frequency and concordancing: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzYxODdkNjItODNmMS00MGY1LTg0YzQtYTJmZDg3MTc2NTEx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c9bcd11-977a-4e9c-a9a0-bc734090164a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225a9d3247-866e-4535-96a2-2484de7fd09a%22%7d Tue 17 June10.30-11.30am UK time Building your own corpus: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjJiYTliOGMtZmM3YS00N2FjLTg4YTgtNmM2MzEzMWFlZWE3%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c9bcd11-977a-4e9c-a9a0-bc734090164a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%225a9d3247-866e-4535-96a2-2484de7fd09a%22%7d 1.30-2.30pm UK…
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Consul General Visits CASS
On Friday May 30, Mr. David Frous, the Consul General of the Czech Republic visited the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. During the visit, we highlighted both Lancaster’s rich history in the development of corpus linguistics and its continuing leadership in large-scale data analysis. Lancaster has played a pioneering…
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CASS Enters a New Era of Innovation
Leading the Way in Corpus Linguistics The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University continues to affirm its leadership in the field of corpus linguistics. CASS provides a unique perspective on language analysis using large-scale data (millions and billions of words), cutting-edge computational tools, and specialised software to gain deep…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.