UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics 2012
Date: 10 to 12 July 2012 Time: 9.00 - 6.00
Venue: Management School building, Lancaster University
The UCREL research centre is pleased to announce its second Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. This will take place on Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th, and Thursday 12th July 2011 (half-days Tuesday and Thursday, full-day Wednesday).
The full, final programme is available here.
The event is free to attend, but registration in advance is compulsory, as places are limited.
The UCREL Summer School is intended primarily for postgraduate research students (and secondarily for Masters-level students and postdoctoral researchers) who require in-depth knowledge of corpus-based methodologies for their degree projects. It is not aimed at raw beginners, but rather at PhD students who have at least some introductory experience of analysis using language corpora, and who wish to expand their knowledge of key issues and techniques in cutting-edge corpus research.
The programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented. Tutors include Paul Baker, Jonathan Culpeper, Costas Gabrielatos, Andrew Hardie, Geoffrey Leech, Tony McEnery, Paul Rayson, and Andrew Wilson.
How to register
All PhD students who feel they would benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School are invited to apply for a place. UK and overseas students are equally eligible.
Postdoctoral researchers and Masters-degree-level students are also welcome to apply, but in the event of excess demand, priority will be given to PhD students. Otherwise, places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
As noted above, there is no fee for attending; however participants will be responsible for arranging their own travel, accommodation, and food (lunch will be provided on the full day of Wednesday 11th July). Some links to possibly useful information on travel and accommodation are given below.
To apply for a place in the Summer School, you should fill in this registration form: available in RTF format for completion on computer, in PDF format for printing out.
Once you have completed the form, return it to Amanda Potts by email (preferably; to a.potts@lancaster.ac.uk) or by post (if necessary) at the following address:
Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, United Kingdom.
In addition to sending in the form, we also require your supervisor to write to us briefly, confirming that they support your application and that they expect your PhD research to benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School. This letter in support should also be directed to Amanda Potts, again preferably by email. (If you are a postdoctoral researcher, please ask your Principal Investigator or other research team leader to write in support of your application.)
Your application is not complete until we have received both your formandthe letter from your supervisor.
The deadline for registrations is the 25th May 2012.
Any queries about the UCREL Summer School can also be sent to Amanda Potts who is the main contact person for the event.
A scheduling note
The UCREL Summer School has been scheduled directly before the Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching (Friday 13th July 2012), for the convenience of students who may wish to attend both events.
However, there is no expectation that people attending the Summer School will necessarilyalso attend the conference.
Accommodation information
We are unfortunately not able to make arrangements for accommodation - students attending the Summer School are responsible for organising their own place to stay. However, the following links may be useful:
- University guest room accommodation—on campus
- The Lancaster House Hotel—adjacent to campus
- Other hotels in Lancaster—a list is here;a map is here
Note that any hotel in Lancaster city centre (on the A6 ringroad) will be approximately 10 to 20 minutes from campus by bus. The King's Arms, Travelodge, and the Penny Street Bridge are examples of city-centre hotels close to the bus route.
Travel
The University's travel page—contains information on getting to the University by road, rail or air. The nearest major airport is Manchester.
Event website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool
Contact:
Who can attend: Anyone
Further information
Associated staff: Paul Baker, Jonathan Culpeper, Costas Gabrielatos, Andrew Hardie, Geoffrey Leech, Tony McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Paul Rayson (Computing and Communications), Andrew Wilson
Organising departments and research centres: Linguistics and English Language, University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language (UCREL)
Keywords: Corpora and sociolinguistics/discourse, Corpora of nonstandard languages, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools