by Professor Yaron Matras | Sep 17, 2018 | Research blog
Yaron Matras Professor of Linguistics, The University of Manchester A spectre is haunting the UK Modern Languages community: a feeling of being under siege. The principal source of the anxiety is the continuing decline in student numbers both in secondary schools and...
by Professor Yaron Matras | Aug 6, 2018 | Research blog
Yaron Matras Professor of Linguistics, The University of Manchester When researchers try to initiate change in policy, they are likely to run against the complexity of procedural constraints imposed on the civil service – that’s one of the lessons I learned at a...
by Naomi Wells | May 8, 2018 | Research blog
Naomi Wells Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Translingual Communities, European Languages and Digital Humanities), IMLR Naomi Wells reports on the British Academy plenary round table hosted at the ‘Uncommon Ground: Modern Languages and Cultures for the 21st Century’...
by Professor Andy Byford | Apr 23, 2018 | Research blog
Professor Andy Byford Durham University Modern Languages (ML) are said to belong to the humanities, yet it is never made entirely clear what space precisely they occupy within them. In the phrase ‘Modern Languages’, the term ‘language’ is largely a metaphor. There are...
by Professor Stephen Hutchings | Oct 11, 2017 | Research blog
Stephen Hutchings Professor of Russian Studies, The University of Manchester The process leading to OWRI involved discussions over the legacy of the 5 national Language Based-Area Studies Centres which were co-supported by the ESRC and the AHRC from 2005 to 2016....
by Dr Zoë Roth and Denise Grollmus | Aug 2, 2017 | Research blog
Zoë Roth Assistant Professor of French, Durham University Denise Grollmus University of Washington Scholars in the humanities have for several decades now been expected to justify their value in the face of a neoliberal, market-led approach to higher education, dating...
