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Language Sciences Workshop Fund projects announced July 2025

22 July 2025

We are pleased to announce that five workshops have been awarded funding in the latest round of the Workshop Fund. More details will be available on the Language Sciences website closer to the workshop dates. The following two workshops are funded directly through the Language Science budget: Sociolinguistic Variation in...

Workshop Fund: Call for AI-Focused Proposals Supporting Language Equity and Inclusion – Apply Now!

1 April 2025

New Call for Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 18 July 2025 The Language Sciences Workshop Fund offers funding for the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. However, this round, which is funded by our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity 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 support 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 nine 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...

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