The School has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis. These facilities are used by undergraduate students, postgraduate students and staff for a variety of research projects.
All students in the Sociology Discipline, including at both undergraduate and graduate programs, are automatically registered and able to access technology from the Digital Media Studio. Equipment that comprises this studio enhances how students and staff engage with cultural theories and practical skills to meet the aims of producing critical and digitally literate citizens.
Discover the resources that enable us to conduct our unique and innovative research in Linguistics and English Language. Our discipline has been highly successful in securing continuous internal and external funding for both research equipment and software. Our equipment is used by a diverse range of staff research profiles and is spread between two major labs, the Phonetics Lab and the BaBEL EEG Lab.
Research Facilities in Linguistics and English Language
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) is one of the world leading research centres in corpus linguistics. The centre develops large corpora (e.g. The British National Corpus 2014, Trinity Lancaster Corpus), creates cutting-edge software tools (e.g. #LancsBox, CQPweb, Lancaster Stats Tools online) and produces high-impact research. It also organises corpus linguistics training events in the UK and internationally.
