Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr James Corbet PhD

Teaching Fellow in Linguistics

Research interests

  • Second language acquisition
  • Heritage language acquisition and bilingualism
  • Language contact and multilingualism
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Dr Karin Zotzmann

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Critical Realism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Language learning and teaching

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Laura Dominguez

Professor of Linguistics

Research interests

  • Major Areas of research: formal second language acquisition, bi/multilingualism and native la…
  • Other Areas of Interest: heritage language acquisition, linguistic interfaces, learner corpor…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lexi Webster

Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Research interests

  • interdisciplinary transgender and queer studies
  • media, politics, and society
  • corpus linguistics, critical discourse studies, and (socio)cognitive linguistics 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Ms Louise Hallman

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • queer/feminist data studies
  • corpus linguistics
  • digital humanities
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Professor Marion Demossier

Professor of French & European Studies

Research interests

  • climate ethnography and environment and climate change
  • French and European politics
  • Republicanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Matthew Hunt

Lecturer in Sociolinguistics

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Variation
  • Perception

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Michael Kranert PhD (UCL), QTS, Staatsexamen, SFHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Political Discourse
  • Comparative Political Discourse Analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Özgür Şahan PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Language performance assessment
  • Second language writing
  • English as a medium of instruction

Accepting applications from PhD students

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