The open day is in full flow! Featured: Dr. Rachel Smith and Dr. James Balfour (in full flow explaining our specialisms in Scots, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics and more to incoming first-year students).
Come up to the Kelvin Gallery to say hello in the next couple of hours!
We're looking for a new colleague! Specifically, a sociophonetician on a teaching (LTS) contract from September until May. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please apply or send this on to them!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ288/t...
The event focuses on Thomas Clancy's Iona project but Carole will launching the Place-Names of Berwickshire Vol. 1, a major output from the Leverhulme Trust-funded REELS project: Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: evidence from place-names.
Hope to see some of you there!
Coming up on Monday 9th June is a great place-names event involving our very own Prof. Carole Hough!
The event takes place from 6pm-8pm in 3 University Gardens (and hybrid) - sign up using the link below.
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If you missed her in Bristol, unconfirmed reports suggest she may be giving an inaugural professorial lecture here at the University of Glasgow at some time in the near future... So for those based in Scotland, watch this space!
Last week, our Prof. Joanna Kopaczyk delivered a keynote lecture at the Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference 2025 in Bristol, focusing on "Cinderella" languages in Europe!
We hope this is the first in many great meetings for LASS, with the next meeting to be hosted later this year at the University of Edinburgh!
Sign up to the LASS mailing list here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
We were very lucky to have Kamran Khan from Birmingham up to speak to us, joined by Tilman Schwarze based here in Glasgow, to open up a fascinating discussion about language and surveillance, drawing on their research and experiences in Birmingham and Chicago. Thank you both so much!
On Friday of last week we hosted the first meeting of LASS - Language and Society in Scotland! LASS is a new network for sociolinguists and any other researchers working at the interface of language and society in Scotland.
Job announcement! ELL is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Communications to join a new area of growth in our subject area. Take a look at the job announcement and let us know if you have any questions!
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Hi everyone! We're now going to be posting updates about ELL @ the University of Glasgow here on Bluesky (as well as X for the time being).
Give us a follow and help us re-create our networks here!
