Survey Staff

Professor Bas Aarts
Director
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Dr Kathryn Allan
Senior Lecturer in the history of English in the department. She is a specialist in historical and cognitive semantics and lexicology, and a contributor to the Keywords Project.
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Dr Jillian Bowie
Honorary Research Fellow, worked on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools and Changing English Verb Phrase projects.
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Dr Beth Mallory
Lecturer in English Linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics, including sociohistorical linguistics, discourse, and corpus methodologies.
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Luke Pearce
Teaching Fellow working on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project.
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Sean Wallis
Deputy Director and Principal Research Fellow, AI, methodology, statistics and computing.
Currently working on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project, teaching and corpus research.
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Dr Guyanne Wilson
Lecturer in English Linguistics, with a focus on World Englishes and corpora.
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Administrator
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Former staff

Dr Ian Cushing
Formerly a Teaching Fellow in English linguistics and on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project, he is now a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. He can be contacted at i.cushing@mmu.ac.uk.
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Dr Rachele De Felice
In 2022, Rachele became a lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, having been a lecture in phonetics and phonology at UCL.
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rachele.de-felice@open.ac.uk

Dr Ellen Smith-Dennis
Having worked as Teaching Fellow in English linguistics, also worked on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project, Ellen is now an assistant professor at the University of Warwick, where she can be contacted at e.smith-dennis@warwick.ac.uk.
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Dr Seth Mehl
Seth was a Research Fellow on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project. He is now a senior lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Sheffield, and Co-Director of the University of Sheffield Centre for Equity and Inclusion.
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s.mehl@sheffield.ac.uk

Dan Clayton
Worked as Research Fellow and education specialist on the Teaching English Grammar in Schools project.
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danseanclayton@googlemail.com

Dr Joanne Close
Jo was the Research Fellow on The changing verb phrase in present-day British English project. She has now moved to Chester and can be contacted at j.close@chester.ac.uk.
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Professor Evelien Keizer
Evelien joined the Survey in January 2001 to work as a Research Fellow on the AHRB funded Noun Phrase project which has now finished. She took up a chair at the University of Vienna in March 2011. She can be contacted at m.e.keizer@uva.nl.

Professor Gerald Nelson
Gerry Nelson, who passed away in 2022, was Deputy Director of the Survey from 2002 to 2007 and the co-ordinator of the International Corpus of English project until 2017. We published an obituary to Gerry on our blog.

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