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Language Sciences Workshop Fund – Open for Applications

1 April 2025

The Language Sciences Workshop Fund is now open for applications, offering funding for the organisation and delivery of workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. Some example topics or activities that could be funded are: Promote research connections and collaborations Enable stakeholder and...

Incubator Fund Call for AI-Focused Proposals – Apply Now!

1 April 2025

New call for Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 1 April 2025 The Language Sciences Incubator Fund offers seed funding to supports innovative and interdisciplinary research in language sciences. In this round, we are inviting AI-focused proposals related to our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity and Inclusion through...

Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced March 2025

17 March 2025

We are delighted to announce that eight new projects have been awarded seed funding in the latest Incubator Fund round. Posters on the funded research will be presented at future Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium events. We also hope to feature more information about these projects on the Language Sciences website in...

Cambridge Festival 2025

13 March 2025

Explore Language Sciences at the Cambridge Festival! 19 March – 4 April 2025 Join us at the Cambridge Festival for a fascinating lineup of events exploring the many dimensions of Language Sciences. Discover cutting-edge research from newborn communication signals to how identity drives language change. Meet Furhat, the...

Methods workshop report (Handwritten Text Recognition)

20 January 2025

Dr Rachael Griffiths and Dr Marieke Meelen led a successful workshop on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) at Trinity Hall last November. The event was funded by Cambridge Language Sciences, following an open call for workshops to promote the sharing of research methods between disciplines. Over the course of the day...

Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2024: ‘How can learning a language be made effortless?’

5 December 2024

‘How can learning a language be made effortless?’ This ‘moonshot’ question was the focus of this year’s Language Sciences Annual Symposium which took place on 21 November at Cripps Court, Magdalene College. The moonshots are ambitious questions of societal importance developed as part of Cambridge Language Sciences’...

Language Sciences Incubator Fund opens 21 November 2024

20 November 2024

New call for Language Sciences Incubator Fund Cambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund , offering seed funding to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences. This round offers additional funding opportunities for AI-focused proposals. We have the following...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Henriëtte Hendriks

12 November 2024

Henriëtte Hendriks is Professor of Language Acquisition and Cognition in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition, and she is particularly interested on how children acquire their first language...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Saloni Krishnan

31 October 2024

Saloni Krishnan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on childhood communication disorders, such as DLD (developmental language disorder) and dyslexia. Saloni is based at UCL Language and Cognition, where she is Associate Professor in Developmental Language Sciences. Saloni has received funding...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Emma James

25 October 2024

Dr Emma James is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. Her research focuses on the fundamental processes of how both children and adults learn, drawing upon memory, language and literacy research. She investigates key questions such as: How do we learn and retain new words? How do these...

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