The next seminar of the Northumbria Institute of Humanities Research Seminar Series will take place on Wednesday 28th February 2024 at 2pm in Lipman Building, room 121, on our City Campus.
The speaker is Professor Lesley Jeffries from Lancaster University and her talk will be on ‘Poems, prose and politics: textual meaning in common‘ (there’s an abstract below).
The seminar will be delivered in a hybrid format so join us in person or online.
Continue reading “Poems, Prose and Politics”
The next speaker in this semester’s linguistics research seminar series is Professor Louise Cummings who will be talking on the cognitive-linguistic effects of long COVID.
There’s more information below and information on all talks here:
Speaker: Professor Louise Cummings (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Time: 12:00-13:00
Date: Wednesday 22nd November
Mode of delivery: Online via Teams
Seminar title: Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a large number of people who have not made a good recovery from their COVID infections. For these individuals, physical and cognitive symptoms can persist for months and even years after the initial illness. Cognitive-linguistic difficulties (so-called “brain fog”) are a prominent feature of the Long COVID syndrome, and are known to persist in sufferers long after physical symptoms have resolved. This talk examines the nature of these difficulties by examining language data from 92 adults with the Long COVID syndrome (Cummings, 2023). These adults reported significant problems with cognition and language following acute COVID illness, with many unable to return to work. This talk explores their self-reported cognitive-linguistic difficulties and relates them to problems with verbal recall, verbal fluency, and informativeness during discourse production.
Cummings, L. (ed.) (2023) COVID-19 and Speech-Language Pathology, New York: Routledge.
All welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Mimi Huang, Research Group Lead and Postgraduate Research Lead for Language and Linguistics: mimi.huang@northumbria.ac.uk
We have a great line-up of research seminars for semester one of 2023-2024. Here is the lineup:
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We offer a combination of in-person and online seminars. In-person seminars will also be streamed via Teams unless otherwise stated.
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18 October 2023
Dr Phillip Wallage (Northumbria University)
How to say NO in early German and early English: changing ways to agree and disagree
12:00-13:00, Sandyford 301
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1 November 2023
Dr Rachid Khoumikham (Northumbria University)
Exploring career progression for female engineers: insights into the influence of English medium education (EME) on career progression in the UK and Palestine
12:00-13:00, Sandyford 301
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22 November 2023
Prof. Louise Cummings (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID 12:00-13:00, online via Teams
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8 December 2023
Richie Greaves and Tony Evans (guest speakers and Hillsborough survivors)
Hillsborough: the truth
15:00-16:00, Lipman 0001
Followed by a poster exhibition and presentations from EL6052 Forensic Linguistics at 16:00-17:00
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13 December 2023
Dr Stefan Grondelaers (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Title to be confirmed
12:00-13:00, online via Teams
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All welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Mimi Huang, Research Group Lead and Postgraduate Research Lead for Language and Linguistics: mimi.huang@northumbria.ac.uk
There are lots of exciting events in this year’s Festival of Social Science
Our colleague Mimi Huang is the lead for this interactive workshop on the benefits to adults of reading and sharing stories with children. The event is free and open to all.
The event takes place on Saturday the 11th of November at Whitley Bay Library.
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the funder for the festival, Mimi is the lead for this event and is working with two partners: Nicola Vernon (Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust) and Emmalene Charlton (Tyneside and Northumberland Mind)
Here is the event synopsis:
While much emphasis has been placed on the positive influence that reading has on children’s development and mental health, the contribution of such experiences to the mental health and wellbeing of the adults sharing the stories – such as parents, grandparents, and other caregivers – has been largely overlooked. This public engagement event, funded by the ESRC Social Science Festival, aims to shift the spotlight onto these shared-reading benefits for adults with childcare responsibilities.
Supported by experienced researchers, practitioners and experts at Northumbria University, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, and Tyneside and Northumberland Mind, the event will create an interactive platform for audiences to explore and share their personal experiences of reading with children, uncover hidden and unexpected benefits, and deepen their understanding of how reading with children can contribute to their mental health, personal development and lifelong wellbeing.
The event webpage is here:
And you can find out more about the festival here:
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/news/social-sciences-festival/
As part of a £100,000 British Council grant (Principal Investigator Bill Guariento), Northumbria University welcomed students and academics from the Islamic University of Gaza this week. After 2 years of online work, we now have face-to-face contact.
Continue reading “Visitors From Gaza”
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