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REF 2021
12 May 2022
The REF (Research Excellent Framework) results have come out and shown an incredible result for Newman English. Our outputs, which include books and articles by all staff members, were judged to be some of the best in the country, with 62.5% being classed 4* or 'World Leading' and 31.2% being classed 3* or 'Internationally Excellent'. At 62.5%, we had the third-highest percentage of 4* research, beating out some of the best universities in the country. I'm very proud to have led the UoA the last few years and looking forward to how research in the group will continue to grow.
Language and Religion Symposium
Language and Religion Symposium
17 June 2022, 9:30AM-5:00PM
Newman University, Birmingham (both in-person and online)
Language has always played an incredibly important role in how religions develop and change over time and in different contexts. This symposium will feature presentations from academics doing research on language with different religious communities both throughout the world and with a specific focus on Birmingham. Everyone is welcome to attend, including linguists, practitioners in religious organisations, educators and educationalists, theologians, sociologists, and anyone else with an interest in language and religion. Free to register before 31 May.
For more information and to register: https://superdivercity.com/language-and-religion-symposium/
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion
10 January 2022
I'm very pleased that Helen Ringrow and I have signed a contract to edit The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion! This is an ominous undertaking, but one that I'm very excited to get to work on, as there is so much good work to highlight and collect on this emerging field. We'll begin the process of collecting abstracts now, and hope to see the book in print in late-2023/early-2024.
PALA Chair
11 Nov 2021
I will be the Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association from January 2022. PALA is an international academic association for those who work in stylistics, poetics, and associated fields of language and linguistics. I'm looking forward to supporting an inclusive, international community of language and literature researchers and working with other linguistics associations in the country to keep the study of language and literature a key part of education around the world.