Research Groups
In addition to the wide variety of projects and collaborations run within CRAL, the centre has a number of dedicated research groups which focus on specific areas of applied linguistics. These groups are listed below (click for more details):
Bilingualism Research Group
The Bilingualism Research Group involves members from different university schools in the psycholinguistic exploration of language processing in the bilinguals and multilinguals and collaborates research with academics in China, France, the Netherlands, South Korea and America and utilises various experimental research techniques including behavioural experiments, eye-tracking, computational modelling and neuroimaging.
See also a separate website.
Health Language Research Group
The Health Language Research Group works in partnership across a variety of health care contexts, universities and college sectors. As such it brings together a unique combination of leading researchers from medicine, pharmacy, community health, nursing, psychology, sociology and linguistics, with the aim of advancing the quality of language and communication performance in the National Health Service.
Our ethos is to develop new ways of investigating language and communication in health care, and in formulating randomised controlled trials of language and communication performance. The latter is timely in light of the robust emphasis on Evidence Based Practice in the National Health Service. For further details please contact Dr Kevin Harvey.
See also a separate website.
Language in Professions (LiPs)
Language in Professions (LiPs) is a cross-institutional research group consisting of members from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University who have a general interest in the area of professional communication. In particular, members of the group conduct research in the areas of business language, legal language, media language, health language and educational language. A regular research seminar series is held, with both internal and external speakers. The group are currently planning joint proposals for funding bids.
For further details please contact Dr Louise Mullany.
The Literary Linguistics Research Studio
The Literary Linguistics Research Studio gathers together research activity in stylistics, cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics, narratology, creativity, consciousness and literary fiction, and related areas within the broad domain of literary linguistics. This builds on the longstanding world-class reputation of the Nottingham School for work at the interface of language and literature, dating back in its modern manifestation to the 1960s, but with its roots in the stated founding ethos of the School in the 1880s.
For further details please contact Professor Peter Stockwell.
Vocabulary Research Group
The Vocabulary Research Group involves MA and PhD students from the School of English who are specializing in second language vocabulary research under the supervision of Prof. Norbert Schmitt. The group meets weekly to discuss current readings and issues, and to present the students’ own research. The group is highly interactive, and is supportive in each of the steps of research: design, data collection, interpretation, presentation, and publication. The senior students in the group also take an active role in mentoring the junior members in research methodology, ensuring that the research expertise of the group remains intact year-on-year.
For more information on the group, see this page or Norbert Schmitt’s separate website.
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