Research projects

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Current projects

Title Funder Start date End date
Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society AHRC 2012 31 December 2099
National Network for Interpreting HEFCE January 2017 31 December 2099
Speaker identity in metaphor processing LCS SRDF 1 January 2015 31 December 2099
TAUS Internally funded 2008 31 December 2099

Past projects

Title Funder Start date End date
MultiLingual Minds and Factors Affecting MultiLingual Outcomes UiT (Arctic University of Norway) 1 September 2020 31 December 2023
Quantifying bilingual language experience: Optimising tools for educators, clinicians and researchers Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 1 October 2019 30 September 2022
Social Distancing and Development ESRC 1 May 2020 30 November 2021
Assessing core language skills at the beginning of secondary school in the Born-in-Bradford cohort Bradford Opportunity Area 15 September 2020 14 September 2021
Experiences of Year Abroad in China Internally funded 1 October 2018 30 June 2021
HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) test taker characteristics, test performance and implications for HSK test constructs Hankao International 1 April 2019 1 November 2020
Speech tempo perception and missing sounds Leverhulme Trust 4 September 2017 1 October 2020
LITE Excellence and Innovation fellowship LITE 1 September 2018 31 August 2019
“Reading to Learn” – cognitive processes involved in learning Chinese characters LCS 1 May 2019 31 July 2019
Promoting language development via shared reading ESRC 1 April 2015 1 August 2018
ManyBabies1: Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference APS 1 May 2017 1 April 2018
Early discourse competence in preschool children: An elicitation study AHRC 1 September 2016 1 December 2017
Syllables, segments and how to measure speech tempo: Evidence from listening experiments British Academy / Leverhulme Trust 4 July 2016 3 September 2017
Exploring psycholinguistic eye tracking methodologies and data analytic techniques British Academy 1 January 2014 31 December 2015
Referential communication and executive function skills in bilingual children Leverhulme Trust 1 October 2012 30 June 2015
The Bantu-Romance connection ESF / British Academy 1 May 2006 1 May 2007
William Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu: celebrating a 400 year legacy Supported by The Footsteps Fund 01 August 2014 01 December 2016
WebDoc Internally funded 2014 -
TCC Internally funded 1 January 2010 31 December 2012
Signs beyond borders: Meaning-making across sign and spoken languages Internally funded 2017 2018
ReadingCorp - - -
Process Automation for Localisation of Dialogue in Entertainment Media (PALODIEM) InnovateUK 2014 2016
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MULIMO - - -
LangCorp AHRC - -
Kelly Marie Curie FP7 - -
IntelliText AHRC - -
HyghTra Marie Curie FP7 - -