Management Committee
The centre is governed by a Management Committee chaired by the Cambridge Language Sciences co-Directors. The Management Committee provides input to major projects, assists the Directors with decision-making and champions CLS across the University and beyond. It has representatives from across the University of Cambridge including Cambridge University Press and Assessment.
Directors
- Prof. Brechtje Post (Co-Director), Theoretical & Applied Linguistics
- Prof. Paula Buttery (Co-Director), Computer Science and Technology
- Dr Matt Davis (Co-Director), MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
- Dr Guy Emerson (Executive Director), Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
Other Committee members
- Dr Mirjana Bozic, Dept. of Psychology
- Prof. Linda Fisher, Faculty of Education
- Dr Kate Knill, Dept. of Engineering
- Ms Gordana Najdanovic, Research Strategy Office
- Dr Marieke Meelen, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- Dr Evelina Galaczi, Cambridge University Press and Assessment
- Dr Nick Saville, Cambridge University Press and Assessment
- Prof. Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- Ms Jane Walsh, Cambridge Language Sciences
- Prof. Laura Wright, Faculty of English
Centre activities are overseen by Jane Walsh (IRC Manager). Executive Director, Dr Guy Emerson, also leads in the development of new large-scale interdisciplinary proposals on behalf of the centre.
External Advisory Board
The External Advisory Board is appointed by the Management Committee and drawn from external research institutions or non-academic bodies. It meets once a year. The Board provides expert and strategic advice to the Co-Directors and Management Committee.
Current Advisory Board members are:
- Prof. Stephen Levinson (Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)
- Prof. Stephen Pulman (Professor of Computational Linguistics Emeritus, University of Oxford)
- Prof. Antonella Sorace (Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh)
- Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti (Professor of Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB))
- Prof. Alex Lascarides (Chair in Semantics, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
Internal Advisors
The internal advisory group are critical friends within the University with in-depth knowledge of Cambridge Language Sciences who are consulted on an ad hoc basis.
Current internal advisors are:
- Prof. Ann Copestake (Computer Science & Technology)
- Prof. Henriëtte Hendriks (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
- Prof. Robert Foley (Archaeology)
- Mandy Hill, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press and Assessment