Dr Greg Woodin BA, MA, PhD Department of English Language and LinguisticsPostdoctoral Research Fellow Contact details Emailg.a.woodin@bham.ac.ukTwitter@greg_woodin View my research portal AddressDepartment of English Language and LinguisticsUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Greg Woodin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Dr Bodo Winter’s UKRI ‘Making Numbers Meaningful’ project. His research crosscuts linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science, using computational corpus methods and experiments to explore metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication. For more information, visit his website. Qualifications PhD in English Language and Applied Linguistics, 2023, University of Birmingham MA in Social Research, 2019, University of Birmingham MA by Research in English Language and Applied Linguistics, 2018, University of Birmingham BA (Hons.) in English Language, 2017, University of Birmingham Biography I have attended the University of Birmingham since 2014 when I began my BA in English Language, which I enjoyed so much that I decided to stick around for the next decade. Since August 2023, I have been working in the Department of English Language and Linguistics as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Teaching I have taught on the undergraduate modules Fundamentals of Language: Sounds and Words and Applied Linguistics, and I have independently led several workshops on statistical models and implementing these models in R. Research My research investigates topics relating to metaphor, iconicity, and multimodal numerical communication, exploring co-speech gestures, data visualization, abstract cognition, language evolution, and more. Publications Recent publications Article Woodin, G, Winter, B, Littlemore, J, Perlman, M & Grieve, J 2023, 'Large-scale patterns of number use in spoken and written English', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2022-0082 Generalizability Tests Forecasting Collaboration 2022, 'Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 30, e2120377119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120377119 Woodin, G, Winter, B, Perlman, M, Littlemore, J & Matlock, T 2020, ''Tiny numbers' are actually tiny: Evidence from gestures in the TV News Archive', PLoS ONE, vol. 15, no. 11, e0242142. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242142 Woodin, G & Winter, B 2018, 'Placing Abstract Concepts in Space: Quantity, Time and Emotional Valence', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, 2169. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02169 Comment/debate Perlman, M & Woodin, G 2021, 'A Complete Real-World Theory of Language Should Explain How Iconicity Remains a Stable Property of Linguistic Systems', Journal of Cognition, vol. 4, no. 1, 43. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.166 View all publications in research portal