Workshops

BAAL Researcher Development Workshops 2025-2026

BAAL is delighted to announce that the following workshop applications have been successful in the 2025-26 funding round. BAAL Researcher Development Workshops are aimed at meeting the researcher development needs of BAAL’s junior academic members (e.g. doctoral students and early-career researchers), thus fulfilling our mission of ensuring continuity and renewal in the Applied Linguistics community.

Workshop title Organisers Venue Date
Beyond the text: A practical workshop on multimodal social media analysis of health, harm and trust Yuze Sha and Martyn Pickersgill  University of Edinburgh May 2026 
Researcher vulnerabilities in applied linguistic Sal Consoli  University of Edinburgh + online  March 2026 (provisionally) 
How do they do it? Discourse Analysis for insights into practices: An interdisciplinary showcase
  • Cara Penry Williams
  • Jennifer Marshall
  • Hannah Valenzuela
  • Maria Urbina Montana
University of Derby June 2026

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BAAL funding call – Researcher Development Workshops 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.

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BAAL Researcher Development Workshops 2024-25

BAAL is delighted to announce that the following workshop application has been successful in the 2024-25 funding round. BAAL Researcher Development Workshops are aimed at meeting the researcher development needs of BAAL’s junior academic members (e.g. doctoral students and early-career researchers), thus fulfilling our mission of ensuring continuity and renewal in the Applied Linguistics community.

Workshop title

Organiser
Host university
Date

Exploring applications of eye tracking methodologies in applied linguistics research: Bridging theory and practice

(for any queries about this workshop, please email Gergely Kajos at ed19gh@leeds.ac.uk)

Gergely Kajos
University of Leeds
November 5, 2025

For any general queries, please contact the BAAL Seminars Coordinator, Paweł Szudarski at pawel.szudarski@nottingham.ac.uk.

Information about previous successful workshop applications can be found on this page.

BAAL and Routledge ran a successful workshop series from 2014-2019. The details of previous BAAL-Routledge workshops can be found via the link below.

Details of past BAAL-Routledge workshops