The Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England

Grants and contracts

Grants held by members of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics

Jonathan Charteris-Black is a consultant researcher on an ESRC-funded project on language, gender and illness hosted by the School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University.

Richard Coates was Principal Investigator from 2003-4 of the AHRB grant (c. £300,000) supporting the Survey of English Place-Names (1999-2004; held at the Institute for Name Studies, Nottingham); is co-holder of the subsequent AHRC grant (2005-10; c. £300,000; held at Nottingham); and has been holder of various British Academy small grants to support the Survey (2003-6; held at Nottingham) and the web-resource project "Names in Shakespeare Online" (2006; held at Sussex). He is Principal Investigator of the new project “Family Names of the United Kingdom” (with Patrick Hanks, 2010-4, funded by the AHRC; £834,350.42).

Jeanette Sakel obtained a one-year fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (2002-3), and a grant from the University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Research Support fund to organise an international workshop on language contact (2005).

She also obtained £300 from the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) for the organisation of a workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Transfer, Crosslinguistic Influence and Contact-Induced Change, to be held at UWE 9-11 July 2008 (co-organizer Jeanine Treffers-Daller)

Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Helmut Daller obtained an ESRC research seminar grant of £15,000 for a series entitled “Models and Measures of Vocabulary Acquisition, Knowledge and Use: The Interface between Theory and Applications”, with researchers at the Universities of Swansea and Reading, and led by UWE; and small grants from the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the LAGB for BAAL/CUP Vocabulary Seminar (2004).

Jeanine Treffers-Daller also obtained sponsorship of £300 from the Bangor Centre for Research in Bilingualism, for the workshop on Transfer (9-11 July) [see above].

Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Kate Beeching obtained British Conference Grants for the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism (2001) and the Annual AFLS conference (2006).

Beeching, Coates, Daller, Sakel and Treffers-Daller have obtained British Academy Overseas Conference Grants for a wide range of international conferences.