Lorna Carson
@lornacarson.bsky.social
Applied linguist, Dublin. Likes to be busy & likes doing nothing in equal measures.
First #LIFELANGS Annual Public Lecture tomorrow 9 July at 12pm at QUB’s Canada Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, with guest speaker Prof. Bassey Antia, University of the Western Cape, on “Racism, Language, and Educational Materials”. Free to join, register on Eventbrite ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4yn6pf2j
Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! 🚨 Tá muid ag glacadh le hiarratais ar dhá phost lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann: - Eagarthóir Coimisiúnaithe Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 18 Meitheamh 2026 - Cúntóir Corpais Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 29 Meitheamh 2026 www.ria.ie/about/career...
Did you know you could ask us ANYTHING related to language? Send us any language-related questions, the ones you’ve always wanted to ask, and we’ll do our best to answer them here! Just drop us a line at info@lifelangs.com
Our excellent handbook on supporting inclusive multiliteracies in the early years is now available in Basque, Frisian and Dutch. www.readwithmee.eu
New book! "Towards Building Anti-Racist Communities: A Focus on Intersectionalities" edited by Theresa Y. Austin and Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth is available now on our website ⬇️
✨🌟We are thrilled to share our brand new @lifelangs project logo, drawn by Olivia McConaghy, aged 12, from County Armagh. Congratulations! 📣We are translating the lower part of our logo into as many languages as we can. Please tell us how to say ‘A Living Observatory’ in your languages!
🗺️ New interactive language map from our @LIFELANGS Living Observatory! Ever wondered what languages are spoken in your area? Our interactive map, based on census data (2021 NISRA & 2022 CSO) shows languages other than English or Irish by county. antoinrodgers.shinyapps.io/lifelangs/
📢 Our first LIFELANGS newsletter is live! Check out our new interactive language map for the island of Ireland 🗺️, three new team members, and a packed events calendar ahead ⬇️ lifelangs.com #LIFELANGS #Languages #Ireland
LIFELANGS
A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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All welcome at our mini research symposium next week, especially early career researchers. Come and present or just listen!
Join us for our webinar on early multilingual literacies, part of the Read with MEE project, www.readwithmee.eu
Bring yourself and friends! Message us with any queries. Full details at www.lifelangs.com @lornacarson.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
LIFELANGS
A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory project officially launched :) Watch our launch webinar here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Efv... Closed captions available. BSL/ISL interpretation. #nsrp #hea #languagesconnect #thinklanguages #languagesmatter #sharedisland
Online Launch of LIFELANGS A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
YouTube video by TCD SLSCS
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Thrilled to be able to start work alongside @aislingoboyle.bsky.social on the new @lifelangs.bsky.social Living Observatory project, working with an amazing team from @tcddublin.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Launching 4 Dec at 4pm GMT online, join us! #NSRP
LIFELANGS Living Observatory@lifelangs.bsky.social · 8mo agoWelcome to LIFELANGS - A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the island of Ireland. An ambitious new large-scale collaborative research project from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social, led by @aislingoboyle.bsky.social & @lornacarson.bsky.social.
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024
YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research
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#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟 Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
@iraal.bsky.social · last yr.🔔EXCITING NEWS🔔 🟢 #IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟 Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future 📍 @tcddublin.bsky.social 📩 Submit abstract by 31 May 2025: forms.gle/7Xfk8aX49zdR... Queries: iraal2025conference@gmail.com
Maybe you always knew deep down that we linguists are just lovely people, right?! Join us tomorrow for this public talk in @tcddublin.bsky.social and learn why… www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-lingui...
Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better)
Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better). A genderized point of view on Italian.
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Planning to study @tcddublin.bsky.social but need to boost your English first, or know someone who will be? We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study. 👉 Learn more at www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched during National Sign Language Week.
Police Service launches new sign language video relay service
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched ...
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Dublin friends and colleagues, I'm coming to Trinity next Monday 24th March to give the @historytcd.bsky.social Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture. All welcome, starts at 4pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. Really looking forward to bringing this new research back to the alma mater!
Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture - A City in Translation: Multilingual Lives in Early Modern London
A seminar by Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.
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Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
We are hiring! The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcdslscs.bsky.social seeks an Asst Prof in Applied Sign Linguistics, specific purposes contract. Full details at www.tcd.ie/vacancies
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
