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Music record inventively illuminates research into the evolution of words relating to “light”
Professor Simon Kirby collaborated with artists & musicians around Scotland to create ‘Sing the Gloaming,’ a vinyl record of experimental music grounded in research
Linguistics & English Language Professor part of project rebuilding people's lost voices
People who have lost, or are at risk of losing, their voice due to a medical condition are set to be helped by a new spin-out company that will create a personalised synthetic version of their voice.
Linguistics Professor to deliver webinar talk at United Nations Association of New York
Antonella Sorace, Linguistics Professor and Director of Bilingualism Matters, will speak at a webinar hosted by the United Nations Association of New York
Three PPLS researchers to collect COVID-19 video diaries from Edinburgh & Lothian residents
Linguistics & English Language researchers Dr Lauren Hall-Lew, Dr Claire Cowie and Dr Catherine Lai to investigate impact of COVID-19 on Edinburgh & Lothian community
Student Awards celebrate achievements of PPLS students
Students from Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences secured 10 nominations across 6 different categories at the Student Awards 2020
UK's first museum of languages travels to Edinburgh
A series of pop-up exhibitions designed to inspire more people to learn languages is coming to Summerhall as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Multilingual Stories Festival (7-10 November)
PhD Linguistics graduate wins distinguished article prize
Laura Arnold has won an award from the Philological Society, the oldest learned society in Great Britain
Linguistics and English Language graduate wins prestigious dissertation prize
Rebecka Elm has won a national award recognising her dissertation as one of the best in the UK
Linguistics student captains University Challenge team
Emma Williams captains the University of Edinburgh team to victory in the first round of 2019/2020 University Challenge
Edinburgh summer shows: Memory, bilingualism and trickery
Psychology researchers and linguists will share their work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Royal Society of Edinburgh events programme this August