Governance

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. Napoleon Katsos (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    
• Mr Richard Arlett, Cambridge Language Sciences
• Prof. Laura Wright, Faculty of English
• Prof. Brechtje Post, Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

Centre activities are overseen by Mr Richard Arlett (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. Brechtje Post (Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
• 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