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CASS welcomes XJTU delegation in strategic visit marking new UK–China TNE partnership
Last week, CASS was pleased to welcome a delegation from Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) for a strategic visit focused on strengthening collaboration around our newly co-designed double-degree BSc in Language Science. The programme has recently been approved as part of a competitive group of 50 newly endorsed UK–China transnational education (TNE) partnerships, as announced by…
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A Break in the Clouds: Behind the Scenes of the LU–XJTU Dual Degree Lancaster Video Shoot
Last Friday, the CASS team filmed the Lancaster segment of a promotional video for the joint Linguistics dual-degree programme in Language Science run by Lancaster University and Xi’an Jiaotong University. Despite a forecast of overcast skies and persistent rain throughout the week, the day of the shoot brought a welcome surprise: by the time filming…
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CASS Hosts Vice-Chancellor Visit
On Monday 18 May, CASS welcomed Professor Steve Decent, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University, for a visit focused on the future direction of Linguistics and interdisciplinary research at Lancaster. The visit included a “show and tell” session featuring some of CASS’s most recent research projects alongside key milestones from the history of Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics.…
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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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Fully funded PhD opportunity at the CASS research centre
We are delighted to offer a full-time, fully funded PhD studentship (including a Research Training Support Grant) within the group of Dr Isobelle Clarke in the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in Linguistics and English Language. The successful applicant will join a team of researchers based at Lancaster…
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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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From Korea to CASS – Diving into Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University
In January 2026 I visited The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University. The reason for my visit was related to my PhD research which I recently started. I am pursuing a PhD in linguistics, specifically Corpus Linguistics, at Lancaster University. It was time to meet my supervisor, Professor Vaclav…
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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…
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.