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• Wed 4 Dec 19 · Language, gender and sexism in the house of commons (English, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Thu 20 Jun 19 · Language, identity and why we shouldn't be so quick to judge (English, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne)

• Fri 8 Mar 19 · Through two lenses: Re-enregistering Cypriot Greek as ‘slang’ in London’s Greek Cypriot diaspora (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 8 Feb 19 · Reading on Screen: challenging myths and misperceptions of reading in the digital age (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 7 Dec 18 · Rhetoric of Death and Dying (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 19 Oct 18 · Excavating naming practices in language research methodologies: The case of Romani languages in Eur (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 30 Apr 18 · On translating Martin McDonagh (Irish Cultural Centre, London)

• Tue 8 Nov 16 · ABBIE GARRINGTON – Touch as Language / Language as Touch | CROSSING BORDERS (Siobhan Davies Studios, London)

• Tue 18 Oct 16 · SUE MACLAINE - A Multitude of Possibilities | CROSSING BORDERS (Siobhan Davies Studios, London)

• Wed 20 Apr 16 · a school of thought: thinking & language (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 15 Mar 16 · Gender and Language in the 2015 UK General Election televised debates (Language and Communication, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 19 Nov 15 · Treating context-blindness: How to enlarge people's perspective (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 17 Nov 15 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)

• Wed 28 Oct 15 · Understanding and improving children's difficult behaviour (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Sat 24 Oct 15 · The youths on the wheel: the power of youth languages in Uganda (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Wed 7 Oct 15 · Treating context-blindness: How to enlarge people's perspective (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)

• Thu 17 Sep 15 · Effective brief psychotherapy (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 15 Sep 15 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Sat 11 Jul 15 · (Day 2 of 2) Integrating Language and Literature in the Classroom (Integrating English, London)

• Thu 4 Jun 15 · Understanding and improving children's difficult behaviour (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)

• Wed 27 May 15 · Treating context-blindness: How to enlarge people's perspective (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Fri 8 May 15 · Observing language change and language processing: Old manuscripts, new brains (British Academy, London)

• Wed 18 Mar 15 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 3 Mar 15 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)

• Wed 25 Feb 15 · Raja Shehadeh (The Mosaic Rooms, London)

• Thu 12 Feb 15 · Talk About Speech (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Wed 4 Feb 15 · The English Language Council Lecture (The English-Speaking Union, London)

• Tue 3 Feb 15 · Effective brief psychotherapy (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)

• Tue 3 Feb 15 · 'Like or Else!' The Pragmatics of Arabic Religious Posts on Facebook (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Fri 23 Jan 15 · Online Resources for Grammar Teaching (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 20 Jan 15 · Understanding and improving children's difficult behaviour (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Wed 14 Jan 15 · Treating context-blindness: How to enlarge people's perspective (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)

• Wed 14 Jan 15 · Law as a 'Profession of Language' (School of Law, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 9 Dec 14 · Preparing and Giving Presentations (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 2 Dec 14 · Disnarration in fact and fiction (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Wed 26 Nov 14 · The Languages of Migration (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Tue 18 Nov 14 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)

• Sat 25 Oct 14 · How language shapes our identity (The Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Thu 23 Oct 14 · The dyslexia debate: or should that be the dyslexia diatribe? (Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge)

• Wed 10 Sep 14 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 20 May 14 · Effective brief psychotherapy (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Wed 30 Apr 14 · Gender, Language and the Media (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 7 Apr 14 · Frenemies and fans: The emergence of different YouTube communities (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 31 Mar 14 · Parseltongue and Estonian Swedish (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Wed 26 Mar 14 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Mon 17 Mar 14 · Informal Research Presentations (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 18 Feb 14 · Effective brief therapy strategies and language skills (IET Birmingham, Birmingham)

• Mon 17 Feb 14 · Effective brief psychotherapy (Engineers' House Conference Centre, BRistol)

• Tue 3 Dec 13 · Effective brief strategies and language skills (Two day course) (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 2 Jul 13 · Effective brief strategies and language skills (Two day course) (The Crown Hotel, Harrogate)

• Thu 13 Jun 13 · Think straight – communicate! (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Sat 18 May 13 · Orla Barry: Mountain (South London Gallery, London)

• Tue 30 Apr 13 · Effective brief strategies and language skills (Two-day course) (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Tue 23 Apr 13 · New Parliaments, New Politics? (Media & Performing Arts, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 13 Nov 12 · Brief psychotherapy: Effective strategies and language skills (Clifton Hill House, University of Bristol, Bristol)

• Tue 6 Nov 12 · 'Eh! Two Ts in settee!' (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 18 Sep 12 · David Crystal: A Time and a Place: Where English Came To Be (British Library, London)

• Wed 6 Jun 12 · Brief psychotherapy: Effective strategies and language skills (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham)

• Thu 22 Mar 12 · Language, Culture, and Being Human (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)

• Tue 31 Jan 12 · Brief psychotherapy: Effective strategies and language skills (Friends Meeting House, London)

• Sun 11 Dec 11 · Egyptian Hieroglyphs: 'The Language of Nature' (Methodist Church Hall, London)

• Thu 27 Oct 11 · Diplomatic Incidents: The Pitfalls of Translation (FREE WORD CENTRE, LONDON)

• Sat 22 Oct 11 · Why do languages die? (Faculty of Law, Cambridge)

• Sun 10 Jul 11 · Talking primates: human language vs chimp communication (The Royal Society, London)

• Mon 7 Mar 11 · Are you 'human garbage' in God's eyes?: investigating metaphor and antagonism in YouTube discourse (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 21 Feb 11 · The Amn't Gap Revisited (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 8 Feb 11 · On Language Change (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Mon 7 Feb 11 · Over-Informative Children (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Mon 31 Jan 11 · 'I don't mean anything' - Applying Gricean and Post-Gricean Pragmatics (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 27 Jan 11 · English and Spanish People, Incapable of Learning Foreign Languages? (Instituto Cervantes London, London)

• Mon 24 Jan 11 · Mission Improbable:: Making grammar relevant to secondary English teaching (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 23 Mar 10 · ‘Partners of the Ends': Midlanders and the dialectal 'North-South Divide' (University of Winchester, Winchester)

• Fri 5 Mar 10 · Inference and Writing (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 24 Nov 09 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (UCL, London)

• Tue 20 Oct 09 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (UCL, London)

• Wed 8 Jul 09 · Building bridges between genes, brains and language (The Royal Institution, London)

• Wed 20 May 09 · Metaphor in Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Wed 6 May 09 · Reading Group Discourse: a Corpus-based Analysis of Argumentation and Collaboration (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 28 Apr 09 · Saying is believing (The Royal Institution, London)

• Fri 20 Feb 09 · Language diversity in Scottish universities: practical strategies to support teaching and learning (University of Glasgow, Glasgow)

• Thu 19 Feb 09 · Celebrating Bangla - past and future (Lab 5, Whitechapel Idea Store, Brick Lane Circle, London)

• Thu 16 Oct 08 · Learn to write Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Rudolf Steiner House, London)

• Thu 16 Oct 08 · The Routledge David Crystal Lectures (The Shaw Theatre, London)

• Wed 16 Jul 08 · Pragmatic Stylistics (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 8 May 08 · Meet an Endangered Language - Jalonke (SOAS Endangered Languages Project, London)

• Wed 7 May 08 · Meet an Endangered Language - Kolyma Yukaghir (SOAS Endangered Languages Project, London)

• Wed 7 May 08 · The Linguists - UK Premiere (SOAS Endangered Languages Project, London)

• Tue 6 May 08 · Meet an Endangered Language - Talyshi (SOAS Endangered Languages Project, London)

• Wed 30 Apr 08 · Meet an Endangered Language - Guernesais (SOAS Endangered Languages Project, London)

• Thu 7 Feb 08 · 'Sounds Familiar?' Exploring Accents and Dialects of the UK (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 7 Feb 08 · Studying Language Variation and Change using audio archive material. (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Thu 7 Feb 08 · 'Sounds Familiar?' Exploring Accents and Dialects of the UK (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Sun 10 Jun 07 · Mobility and Moving Populations - Cultural Benefit or Social Chaos? (Secular Hall, Leicester)

• Wed 28 Mar 07 · The European Babel: The Importance of Multilingualism (Institut Francais, London)

• Thu 15 Mar 07 · Words Cannot Say It All (Dana Centre, London)

• Thu 25 Jan 07 · Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic (Room GR 06-07, English Faculty Building, Cambridge)

• Thu 18 Jan 07 · Language & Character in Jane Austen's Novels (Chawton House Library, Alton)

• Thu 19 Oct 06 · Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children (Room GR 06-07, English Faculty Building, Cambridge)

• Tue 13 Jun 06 · Queer Speed Dating (Dana Centre, London)

• Tue 25 Apr 06 · Dissecting Politeness: What minding your P’s and Q’s reveals about you (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 4 Apr 06 · Pragmatics and Reference (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 28 Mar 06 · Grammar and Education (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 21 Mar 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 14 Mar 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 28 Feb 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 21 Feb 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 14 Feb 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 7 Feb 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

• Tue 31 Jan 06 · English Language Seminars (English, Middlesex University, London)

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