Programme/Rhaglen 2025-2026
The CLCR Events Series has been a constant and innovative focal point for research on or connected with Language, Linguistics and Communication (broadly defined). The Series has held regular research meetings since at least 1993, welcoming scholars from around the world to share their ideas.
Today, our meetings comprise a wide range of academic and academically-related gatherings. These include conventional ‘Visiting Speaker’ seminars as well as Networking Roundtables which provide for group discussion of interests and possible future projects around a common theme; “minilloquia”, mini-colloquia which allow several speakers to present their research or thinking and “sliminars” small seminars where more discursive and participatory formats feature.
We welcome audience members from the Language and Linguistics section in ENCAP as well as Humanities and Social Science colleagues and indeed staff across the University and anyone beyond it. Diversity in our audience enriches discussions. This year, we will also be holding events which focus on collective research activities: reflecting on and doing research together.
For more details or to suggest future events, event themes, or speakers (either to volunteer or nominate others), please contact Dr Frances Rock.
Please check timing of individual events carefully below because our usual meeting time is sliding around a bit this term to accommodate other important all-staff events withing ENCAP.
AUTUMN/HYDREF 2025
Interdisciplinary Miniloquium: Wednesday 8 October 2025 (Week 2 of term) 1.20-2.45pm
Topics and Methods in Children’s Social Care Research
Dr Dorottya Cserzo and Dr Harriet Lloyd (both CASCADE, Cardiff University)
As well as the two talks detailed in the link above, Dorottya and Harriet have both agreed to speak about how their research and Learning in Language and Communication at Cardiff has shaped and contributed to their futures.
Informal Lunch: Wednesday 29 October (Week 5 of term) Wednesday 1.00 – 1.50pm
Further information on the informal lunch
Language, Linguistics and Communication-based Mini-Pomodoro Session: Wednesday 12 November (Week 7 of term) 1.10 – 2.40pm
Further information on the mini-pomodoro session
Research-into-Practice Session: Marking using Feedback Studio: Wednesday 19 November (Week 8 of term) 1.15 – 2.00pm
Further information on the research-into-practice session – This session is for staff in the Language and Linguistics section at Cardiff University only
Research Seminar: Wednesday 26th November 2025 (Week 9 of term) 1.10-2.00pm [with optional extended discussion time until 2.20pm]
Roaring and Crying with Animals in the Middle Ages
Dr Liam Lewis (Cardiff University)
Language, Linguistics and Communication Brown Bag – Research Overview: Wednesday 3rd December (Week 10 of term) 1.15 – 2.15pm
Further information on the brown-bag session
SPRING/GWANWYN 2026
[Provisional] Research Seminar: Wednesday 28th January 2026 (Week 1 of term) 1.15-2.05pm [with optional extended discussion time until 2.30pm]
Dr Rose Stamp (The University of Birmingham) – Title and abstract TBC
Research Seminar: Wednesday 11 Feb (Week 3 of term) 1.15-2.05pm [with optional extended discussion time until 2.30pm]
Dr Gary Tam (Swansea University) – Title and abstract TBC
[Provisional] Language, Linguistics and Communication-based mini-Pomodoro session: Wednesday 18 Feb (Week 4 of term) 1.10-2.40pm
Bring along some research work you’re currently engaged with and a device which you plan to work on (most obviously, a laptop). This can be writing, thinking, creating, developing, honing… We will work together in structured bursts of individual activity to develop your individual projects. Hopefully, there will be an option to join and participate online, too.
[Provisional] Language, Linguistics and Communication brown bag: Wednesday 4 March (Week 6 of term) 1.10 – 2pm
An opportunity to share, and hopefully halve, a research problem. Bring your lunch (optionally in a brown bag!) and a single slide (on a USB or emailed to RockF@Cardiff.ac.uk) with the heading “CLCR Brown Bag”. The slide should summarise just one, thorny, challenge or sticking-point in your current research. The idea is that by articulating this, and formulating the challenge into a slide, you may already begin to find ways through it. However, by presenting it to colleagues and receiving feedback, comment and participating in discussion about it, your thinking might be developed. Hopefully, there will be an option to join and participate online, too.
[Provisional] Language, Linguistics and Communication-based mini-Pomodoro session: Wednesday 15 April (Week 9 of term) 1.10 – 2.45pm
Bring along some research work you’re currently engaged with and a device which you plan to work on (most obviously, a laptop). This can be writing, thinking, creating, developing, honing… We will work together in structured bursts of individual activity to develop your individual projects. Hopefully, there will be an option to join and participate online, too.