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
- Prof. Linda Fisher, Faculty of Education
- Prof. Zoe Kourtzi, Dept. of Psychology
- Dr Kate Knill, Dept. of Engineering
- Dr Victoria Leong, Centre for Neuroscience in Education
- Ms Gordana Najdanovic, Research Strategy Office
- Prof. Ian Roberts, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
- 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
- Ms Jane Durkin, Cambridge Language Sciences
Centre activities are overseen by Jane Walsh (IRC Manager) and Jane Durkin (Communications 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