Seminars  

BAAL-Cambridge University Press Seminars 2025-26

The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the successful applicants in the 2025-26 call for seminars.

Seminar Title Organizer Venue Date
The Sociolinguistics of Industry: perspectives on the language of mining, manufacturing and agriculture
  • Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University)
  • John Bellamy (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Nottingham Trent University 17 June 2026
Beyond the Default: rethinking pseudonymisation in Applied Linguistics research
  • Katie Webb (University of Warwick)
  • Kathryn Sidaway (University of Bedfordshire)
  • Marianna Patrick (University of Warwick)
  • Yanyan Li (University of Warwick)
  • Nusrat Gulzar (University of Warwick)
University of Warwick 1-day event in second week of July


BAAL funding call – Seminars 2025-26

As announced at the AGM at this year’s conference in Glasgow, we’re delighted to be launching new funding calls for (i) BAAL-Cambridge University Press seminars and (ii) BAAL Researcher Development workshops.

The key dates for both funding opportunities are as follows:

6 November 2025 (2-3pm UK time): Information session about these funding opportunities (session held online, see the link below)

20 November 2025 (5pm UK time): Submission deadline

January to December 2026: Seminars/Workshops to be held

For any queries about these calls, please do not hesitate to email pawel.szudarski@nottingham.ac.uk.

**********************************************

BAAL-Cambridge University Press Seminars 2024-25

The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the successful applicants in the 2024-25 call for seminars.

Dates Location Title Organisers
06 June 2025 University of Strathclyde AI in Applied Linguistics and TESOL: Researcher and practitioner perspectives

Celia Antoniou, Amal Haddad, Zoe Handley, Clare Wright, Elena Anna Maria Gandini and Nouf Albehairi

23 June 2025 Northumbria University (Re-)exploring ethics in Applied Linguistics research

Alex Ho-Cheong Leung and Nancy Dieu-Ngoc Nguyen

09 July
2025
Open University The future of doctoral writing: Critical dialogues towards a manifesto
Julia Molinari and Jackie Tuck

**********************************************

Previous seminars

For information about previous seminars run by BAAL in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, please visit this page.

British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)