Applying Linguistics Fund: Past Winners
Winning Projects
2020
A total of 22 applications were received and funding was provided to the following three projects:
- Victoria Murphy, Hamish Chalmers and Faidra Faitaki, University of Oxford: Setting Research Priorities for English as an Additional Language. Awarded £3,870.25
- Christopher J Hall, Alice Gruber and Yuan Qian, York St John University: Modelling plurilithic orientations to English with trainee teachers: A comparative international study. Awarded £950.00
- Christopher Anderson, Clare Hollister and Eli Thompson, Canterbury Christ Church University: ‘This is Margate’: Community engagement & collaboration on discourses of regional identity and gentrification project. The discursive construction of identity in East Kent Costal town. Awarded £4,694.00
2018
A total of 25 applications were received and funding was provided to the following three projects:
- Jackie Jia Lou, Susan Stewart and Jean-Marc Dewaele: Increasing the visibility of linguistic diversity in an international school: Children as co-researchers and co-designers of linguistic landscape. Awarded £3,000
- Rodney Jones, Parvaneh Tavakoli, Sylvia Jaworska and Tony Capstick: Solving critical literacy problems in a multilingual prison A community-based collaborative approach. Awarded £3,964.39
- Florence Myles, Bernadette Holmes, Alison Porter, Angela Tellier and Victoria Murphy: Primary Languages Policy Implementation Strategy. Awarded £2,999.50
2014
A total of 15 applications were received and funding was provided to the following four projects:
- Alice Gruber, Godalming , ‘The transition from GCSE to A Level Languages in England – how can the gap be closed?’. Awarded £400
- Natalie Braber, Nottingham Trent University, ‘Charting the East Midlands: Engaging Students and the Community in Linguistics Projects’. Awarded £2,000
- Ursula Lanvers and Kristina Hultgren, The Open University, ‘Implementing a research-based intervention programme on global linguistic issues in a year 9 secondary school‘. Awarded £2,000
- Lucy Jones, University of Hull, ‘Applying linguistics to the development of training resources for adults working with young transgender people’. Awarded £5,530
2013
A total of 10 applications were received and funding was provided to the following three projects:
- Nick Wilson -£2,644.50 – ‘Measuring communication among homeless footballers‘
- Annette Islei – £4,000 – ‘Ugandan teacher competences in Early Literacy pedagogy‘
- Emma Marsden – £3,380 – ‘A Workshop and an Investigation into Researcher/Practitioner Engagement in collaboration with the Association for Language Learning‘
2012
A total of 20 applications were received and funding was provided to the following three projects:
- Kate Haworth and Nicci MacLeod – £4,400 – Applying linguistics to police interviewing
- Sue Fox and Jenny Cheshire – £1000 – Linguistics Research Digest
- Frances Rock – £5100 – Improving communication between police and public
