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As part of the Department’s response to the University and the Division’s requirement that we set in place an enhanced system of research student support and monitoring, the Research Committee of the Department instituted a Linguistics Department Seminar Series. This Series is primarily intended for research students, but staff are also warmly invited and also coursework postgraduates. The seminars will be given by a mix of Department staff, invited lecturers from other fields in the University, and outside visitors to the Department.

For research students, at least two thirds attendance at the seminars in any given semester will be required as part of their research training. The scope of the series is intended to provide a broader understanding of a wide range of aspects of Linguistics over the candidature of the research student and, thereby, to ensure that research students can set their own particular research projects in the context of the study of language and linguistics as a whole, and develop a wider awareness of the discipline.

We hope that at least once per semester there will be a session which research students will want to organise for themselves, allowing for mini-presentations by a number of students. For such sessions, it will be for the research students involved to determine whether the sessions will be open, or will be closed to research students only. These sessions will provide a useful preliminary opportunity for the required on campus research student presentations at the annual Divisional Postgraduate Research Festival (to be held in December this year).

Although, necessarily, the seminar series is limited to on-campus and locally based research students, some of the sessions are audio-recorded and can be made available for off campus students. Of course, the two-thirds attendance requirement can only be set on those on-campus and local students.

Geoff Brindley: Convener, Research Committee
Chris Candlin: Senior Research Professor

For the Research Committee

Seminar Series Schedule - 2008

Review of the Seminar Series Schedule - 2007

Review of the Seminar Series Schedule - 2006

Review of the Seminar Series Schedule - 2005

Review of the Seminar Series schedule - 2004

 

 

 

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