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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh

1 October 2025

Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh is an MRC funded Clinician Scientist at the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, where she leads the Clinical Language and Cognition (CLC) group. She is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She obtained a First Class Honours BSc degree in...

Cambridge Speech Decoding Workshop

23 September 2025

On Friday 16 May 2025, Dr Alexis Deighton MacIntyre and Dr Jérémy Giroud led a Cambridge Language Sciences-funded workshop on the neural decoding of speech and language at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. This analytical approach seeks systematic correspondences over time between a stimulus and the brain. More...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Guy Emerson

8 September 2025

Dr Guy Emerson is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and Executive Director of Cambridge Language Sciences. He also teaches as a College Lecturer at Gonville & Caius College. Guy was in conversation with Shrankhla Pandey, a PhD student at the...

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’...

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