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Update on Patrick Corness’s corpus-based literary research project

In connection with his corpus-based literary research project currently in progress (A Comparative Study of Five English Translations of Lesya Ukrainka’s Drama The Song of the Forest), Patrick Corness visited Ukraine in June/July 2018 with support from a British Council Culture Bridges International Mobility grant (EUR 1112,60) and with the co-operation of the eminent Ukrainian writer …

Congratulations to Xiaoyu Xu

We want to wish one of our previous PhD students – Xiaoyu Xi – every success in her new position. She has been appointed Lecturer in English at the City University of Hong Kong. Many, many congratulations, Xiaoyu – we look forward to hopefully working with you again in the …

Erasmus Funding to Work on Migrant Letters Project in Germany

Some good news! CLaC member Emma Moreton has received Erasmus funding to work with Dr Felix Krawatzek (a Political Scientist at ZOiS, Berlin) on a German and Irish migrant letters project. This project looks at some of the methodological challenges encountered in analysing what might be described as ‘big data’ …

Research Seminar: Designing online assignment-specific feedback on writing across the curriculum

We do hope you will be able to join us for a seminar at 12.30 on Wednesday 25th July by visiting scholar Shari Lughmani, from Hong Kong. Shari has led a number of projects at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University that involve English language tutors and content lecturers collaborating to provide …