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Researchers from the University of Oxford and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice teamed up with students and staff at Cheney School, and with visual and performing artists, to create a festival of writing—with a special focus on elements of writing systems

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are designed to support scholars at a relatively early stage of their academic careers (defined as having submitted their thesis for viva voce examination no more than 4 years prior to the closing date), but with a prov

Graduate Linguistics Online Open Day

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics will be holding an online Graduate Open Day via Microsoft Teams for all prospective graduate applicants on Thursday 20th November 2025 from 1-2pm (Greenwich Mean Time).

Frances Dowle’s Robins Prize winning article has been published in Transactions of the Philological Society.

Professor David Willis receives Swiss National Science Foundation funding

David Willis is part of a team that has been awarded a grant of 2.5 million Swiss francs (£2.33m) for a new Census of Urban and Rural Language in England and Wales (CURLEW).

We are delighted that Dr Hilary Wynne has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for the following project: Eliciting language-specific signatures for expertise in the human brain: a neurolinguistic investigation of expectation dur

Dr Maria AloniILLC & Philosophy,University of Amsterdam FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER15.30-17.00SHIP STREET LECTURE THEATREJESUS COLLEGE OXFORD People often reason in ways that deviate from classical logic.

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral and completing graduate scholars who wish to apply for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme for entry in 2026.

The Philological Society’s Robins Prize is once again an all-Oxford success story in 2025, with a current and a former LPP DPhil student sharing the award.

A New Home for Oxford Linguistics

Oxford’s Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (LPP) is looking forward to an “extreme makeover” in its physical surroundings, as it prepares to move into the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in September 2025.

In May 2025 the UK formally joined the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium as a full member.

Oxford University announces its next Professor of Language and Communication

Professor Devyani Sharma has been appointed to the Professorship of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, a post endowed by News UK. She will take up this post on October 1st 2025.

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics invites Expressions of Interest from researchers who wish to apply to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, together with collaborating colleges, is looking to fill THREE fixed-term positions in Linguistics, all to start on October 1, 2025.

Professor Aditi Lahiri presented ‘The Structure of sounds in mental representations – old manuscripts, new brains’ in the Speakers Corner at the ’40 Years of the Leibniz Prizes’ event that took place on 19th March 2025 in Berlin.

Professor Aditi Lahiri presented ‘The Structure of sounds in mental representations – old manuscripts, new brains’ in the Speakers Corner at the ’40 Years of the Leibniz Prizes’ event that took place on 19th March 2025 in Berlin.

In ‘Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change’, published in Diachronica, Hudson, Wei and Coleman present some applications of speech morphing to model potential reconstructions of historical sound changes.