09 December 2020 Is 'A Christmas Carol' more than a ghost story In this post, Mary Hind-Portley comments on Dickens's Christmas Carol with a focus on its religious elements.
12 November 2020 Research Council Studentships Available to Support Doctoral Research The Department of English Language and Linguistics is inviting applications for studentships as part of the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities and the ESRC-funded Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnerships.
16 October 2020 Bodo Winter awarded Future Leaders Fellowship of over £1million Dr Winter is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics. His research will involve the construction and analysis of large multimodal corpora to explore ways of combating innumeracy, the numerical equivalent of illiteracy
05 August 2020 ELAL hosts UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 ELAL reports on hosting this year's UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC), held 27 to 29 July 2020.
10 June 2020 Exploring and Exploiting Uncertainty A new study by Dagmar Divjak and Petar Milin in the journal Cognitive Science.
05 June 2020 Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics Petar Milin will be one of the four Editors-in-Chief for Elsevier's new edition (3rd).
20 May 2020 BMI Lockdown Life blog series The CLiC team have launched the 'BMI lockdown life' blog series (#BMILockdownlife) together with the Birmingham & Midland Institute to bring together people interested in 19th century literature, culture and history.
18 May 2020 At the Tipping Point: To Be (Public) or Not To Be (Public) in Corpus Linguistics Upcoming Exciting Joint Live Event by Cologne and Birmingham in Digital Space, openly livestreamed on YouTube, featuring Professor Michaela Mahlberg (Birmingham) and Beatrix Busse (Cologne).
08 April 2020 Changing language in unprecedented times An extraordinary event such as the coronavirus pandemic exerts pressure on individual and collective language resources.
31 March 2020 European Research Council backs research into anti-slavery in Africa and sign languages Two researchers from the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham have been awarded ERC Advanced Grants as part of €450 million (£400 million) funding for Europe's long-term frontier research.
21 February 2020 Dr Akira Murakami to launch a new project on research trends in second language acquisition Dr Murakami has received a Language Learning Early Career Research Grant for a new project on the quantitative examination of research trends in second language acquisition.
23 January 2020 "Statistics for Linguists" book published Bodo Winter has recently published a new book called "Statistics for Linguists: An Introduction Using R" with Routledge University Press.
Sustainability and environments How we are exploring issues of climate through the arts, humanities and law.
Birmingham ranked in top 70 in the world for Arts and Humanities The College of Arts and Law is placed 67th in the Times Higher Education 2022 rankings, making it one of the best places for study and research in this field globally.