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 and New Technologies: Data, Language, and Society. The course starts on 15 September 📅.
You can also study flexible online programmes in Corpus Linguistics for credit. Apply now 👉 Corpus Linguistics (Online MA, PgCert or 3-month course for credit) at Lancaster University 📚🌍
Learning from Experience: Key Concepts of Statistical Thinking
At its core, statistics is about learning from experience. This lecture introduces key statistical concepts through the lens of corpus analysis, breaking down essential terms and ideas to help you make sense of language data with clarity and confidence
Beautiful Evidence in Corpus Linguistics: Data Visualisation
This lecture explores the art and science of visualising corpus data. Drawing on key principles of effective data presentation, it examines what makes a graph clear, insightful — or confusing. Through practical examples ranging from bar charts and pie charts to boxplots and sparklines, the lecture illustrates the spectrum of the good, the bad, the ugly — and the truly beautiful — in corpus data visualisation.
Building Your Own Corpus
This session explores the underlying assumptions we make when creating datasets and offers practical, hands-on steps to help you design and build your own corpus—whether you’re starting from scratch or refining existing resources.
Understanding Collocations
This lecture discusses the underlying principles of collocations—word combinations that occur together more frequently than by chance. Drawing on insights from corpus linguistics, it demonstrates how collocations can be effectively identified, analysed, and visualised using corpus tools and techniques.
LancsBox X 5.5.0: New Features
Discover a powerful, free tool for analysing and visualising language—now with a set of exciting new features in the latest release.