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News: Professor John Urry
CASS is extremely sorry to hear of the death of Professor John Urry. We have lost a very distinguished and enthusiastic member of our team, and he will be greatly missed by all at the centre. You can read more about John’s life and work here.
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CASS PhD Student Awarded Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship!
CASS is delighted that the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2016 has been awarded to Amelia Joulain-Jay, a PhD student at CASS, for her work on using Geographical Information Systems and Corpus Linguistics methods to investigate how places were represented in nineteenth-century British newspapers. The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 4
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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From Corpus to Classroom 2
There is great delight that the Trinity Lancaster Corpus is providing so much interesting data that can be used to enhance communicative competences in the classroom. From Corpus to Classroom 1 described some of these findings. But how exactly do we go about ‘translating’ this for classroom use so that it can be used by…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 3
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad
Congratulations to CASS ‘s Professor Ram-Prasad who has been announced as the winner of the ‘Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies (2011-2015)’ book ‘Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries’ (Bloomsbury, 2013).  The Society for Hindu-Christian Studies will hold a panel discussion of Professor Ram-Prasad’s book at the November 2016 annual meeting in San Antonio.
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CASS receives Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education
At the end of February, a team of CASS researchers attended the Presentation of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education, held at Buckingham Palace. The CASS team officially received the award from their Royal Highnesses, The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall on 25th February 2016. Back in November, it…
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The Spoken BNC2014 early access projects: Part 2
In January, we announced the recipients of the Spoken BNC2014 Early Access Data Grants. Over the next several months, they will use exclusive access to the first five million words of Spoken BNC2014 data to carry out a total of thirteen research projects. In this series of blogs, we are excited to share more information…
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Syntactic structures in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus
We are proud to announce collaboration with Markus Dickinson and Paul Richards from the Department of Linguistics, Indiana University on a project that will analyse syntactic structures in the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. The focus of the project is to develop a syntactic annotation scheme of spoken learner language and apply this scheme to the Trinity…
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.