Geoff Barnbrook has been a lecturer in English Language at the University of Birmingham since 1991 and a Senior Lecturer since 2005. He received his PhD from Birmingham in 1995 for work on the grammar of definition sentences and their automatic analysis under the supervision of Professor John Sinclair. 

I teach on a variety of courses in English Language and Applied Linguistics, and research relations between language (and other forms of communication), politics and social contexts.

If you are interested in my research, or take part in one of the courses that I teach, you might find interesting resources at my blog: politicsandpoesie.tumblr.com. 

I teach on a range of undergraduate English Language modules including 'Development and Variation in English', and convene the 'Narrative Analysis' and 'Language, Gender and Identity' specialist modules. I also convene the MA Literary Linguistics, and teach the second semester module 'Language, Style and Identity'.

My research interests include language variation and ...

I have wide-ranging interests in applied linguistics, but I am particularly interested in applications of corpus linguistics to issues in discourse analysis, language education and second language acquisition research.

I am a lecturer in Applied Linguistics in English Language Studies at the University of Birmingham. I have a background in English Language teaching, teacher-training and project management.   

I have a background in English Language and Applied Linguistics and have worked in three countries. I enjoy research and teaching at all levels and I especially like supervising Doctoral Researchers.

Before pursuing my PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2000, I lived and worked in Singapore. I graduated in 2005 and moved back to Singapore for a brief period. In 2007, I moved to Birmingham to take up my current post as lecturer. I was initially in the English for International Students Unit and am currently in the Department of English.

I started my teaching career as a volunteer in Nigeria, followed by several ELT jobs in Africa and South-East Asia, before joining Birmingham to set up ELT teacher development and applied linguistics programmes.

I am a Senior Lecturer in English Language and specialise in the area of spoken discourse and workplace language.

I am a Reader in Applied Linguistics in the English Language department at the University of Birmingham. I teach a range of courses and supervise PhD students in English Language and Applied Linguistics. My research focuses on the acquisition and use of metaphor and other types of figurative language by second language learners. I am also interested in applications of cognitive ...

I am a Lecturer in Translation Studies in the English Language department at the University of Birmingham. I have a background in corpus-based translation studies and textual and intertextual analyses of translated texts.

I work in the English Language Department where I am responsible for teaching and administration on the Distance MAs in TEFL/TESL, Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies.

I am a computational linguist working mainly with text and discourse analysis. One of the aims of my research is it to help navigating large amounts of textual data through partially automated analysis. 

I joined the English Department at the University of Birmingham in 2010. Previously I have taught and lectured in English in the UK, New Zealand and Japan.

I teach linguistics in the Department of English. My research and specialist teaching is primarily in the broad field of lexis and also lexicography.

I am a Lecturer in Translation Studies in the English Language department at the University of Birmingham. I co-ordinate the campus and distance MAs in Translation Studies within this department and teach a range of courses on translation theory and technology. My research focuses on translational stylistics, the marketing and reception of translated fiction, gender and language use in ...

My main professional interests are in the role of language in social processes. This broad topic can be approached in many different ways, and my teaching and research consider it from various perspectives.

I am a lecturer in English Language and Applied Linguistics in the English Language Department at the University of Birmingham. I have a background in English Language teaching and training. My research focuses on digital interaction, including text messaging and online social media.

For a discussion of my research, here is a podcast recorded in May 2012 with the ...

I have been at the University of Birmingham since September 2009, and I am the Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.

I love language, spoken or written, and what it can do - or rather what we users can make it do (and have made it do, over the centuries). Especially writers, literary or otherwise. This is why I’ve spent many years studying and teaching the language of literature, and the art and craft of writing. Understanding language is at the heart of my teaching and research, and trying ...

I am a lecturer working in the English Language Department. I mainly work with the postgraduate students who are following our on-campus and distance programmes. My main areas of expertise are associated with corpus linguistics and language teaching.