Staff 

Directors of the Centre for Corpus Research

Professor Michaela Mahlberg

Professor Michaela Mahlberg

Chair in Corpus Linguistics
Co-Director, Centre for Corpus Research

Department of English Language and Linguistics

As a corpus linguist, I am interested in language as a social phenomenon and the way in which we use language to understand and shape the world we live in. A large part of my research focuses on the language of Dickens’s fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis.

I am currently Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded CLiC Dickens project.

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Dr Paul Thompson

Dr Paul Thompson

Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics
Head of English Language and Linguistics
Co-Director, Centre for Corpus Research

Department of English Language and Linguistics

I have been at the University of Birmingham since September 2009, and I am the Head of Department for English Language and Linguistics as well as being Co-Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. I am an applied corpus linguist with particular interest in specialised discourses. I am also an Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Corpus Linguistics journal.