Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Free summer school opportunity 👇

👇Including a free summer school on corpus linguistics for language testing and assessment

New paper out with colleagues from @phoneticslab.bsky.social 'Articulatory phonetics in the market: combining public engagement with ultrasound data collection' doi.org/10.1515/ling... @samkirkham.bsky.social @takayukinagamine.bsky.social @pamelaforster.bsky.social @justinjhlo.bsky.social

Dimension-based comparative judgements. This study proposes a new criteria-based method for conducting comparative judgements (CJ). doi.org/10.1177/0265...

Very excited to see our article on remote proctoring in language tests published. @benjaminkremmel.bsky.social , Jieun Kim and I outline threats to fairness and justice linked to remote proctoring and hope that test providers will address these issues head on. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After a great Language Testing Forum at the British Council last weekend, a round-up of Lancaster University LTRG members' activities www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/...

Had a fun time wearing giant headphones to record this for BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking with @robdrummond.bsky.social Andrea Smith, Shane O'Mara and John Gallagher. Great to chat about accents and ultrasound www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...