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We are pleased to announce that three 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 workshops are funded through our AI-deas project, run in collaboration with AI@Cam, “Improving language equity and inclusion th…

We are delighted to announce that nine new projects have been awarded seed funding in the latest Incubator Fund round (running Nov 2025 - Feb 2026). 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 i…

Explore Language Sciences at the Cambridge Festival!16 March – 2 April 2026Join us at the Cambridge Festival for a fascinating lineup of events exploring the many dimensions of Language Sciences. Discover cutting-edge research, from how bilingual brains process language, to the paradox of speech, and how identity drives language change.You can brow…

Report from the symposium “Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech and AI Research"By Petre Breazu and Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)Why is hate speech so widespread on social media, yet so rarely flagged or removed by platform moderation systems? This question framed the one-day symposium Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech and AI Research, hel…

Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 27 November 2025The 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 Inclusion through AI”, is restricted …

Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 27 November 2025Cambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund, offering seed funding of up to £5,000 per project to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences.Applications are now closed.We have the following funding opportunities available:1. Interdiscip…

Matt Lambon Ralph is the Professor of Cognitive Brain Sciences. He is also the Unit Director of MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. You can read his detailed biography and publications here. His research interests include semantic cognition and its disorders, aphasia, recovery, rehabilitation and neuroplasticity. T…

Professor Timothy T. Rogers is the principal investigator of the Knowledge and Concepts Laboratory currently in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in summer 2026. His research areas include Biology of Brain and Behavior, Developmenta…

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 Neuroscience in 2004 for w…

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 specifically, "decoding" can…

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 Department of Computer Science and Tec…

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 Ancient Languages. Towards Th…

New Call for Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 18 July2025The 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 Inclusion through AI”, is re…

New call for Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 1 April 2025The 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 AI” Funding of up to £5,000 i…

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 due course.The following two…