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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
TAUS	Internally funded	2008	31 December 2099
Speaker identity in metaphor processing	LCS SRDF	1 January 2015	31 December 2099
National Network for Interpreting	HEFCE	January 2017	31 December 2099
Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society	AHRC	2012	31 December 2099
MultiLingual Minds and Factors Affecting MultiLingual Outcomes	UiT (Arctic University of Norway)	1 September 2020	31 December 2023

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
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
MyExhibition	-	-	-
MULIMO	-	-	-
LangCorp	AHRC	-	-
Kelly	Marie Curie FP7	-	-
IntelliText	AHRC	-	-
HyghTra	Marie Curie FP7	-	-