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In addition to the individual research of staff members, the Department's areas of research concentration are in part linked with its five existing Research Centres: the Centre for Language Science (CLaS) with its specialised laboratories, the AMEP Research Centre, the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Research (CTIR) the Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL) and the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education Research Centre (ALLE). Other research groupings include The Style Council Centre, the Sign Language LINGuistics Group, and the Systemic Meaning Modelling Group (SMMG).

Academic staff, research students, and research associates freely make links with any of these Centres and research groupings, but typically attach themselves chiefly to one or two. Collaborative inter-Centre research is encouraged through the Department’s Research Committee, and each Centre may have attached to it from time to time variable numbers of limited term research and teaching staff.

The Faculty of Human Sciences encourages inter-departmental collaboration, one example of which is the annual Postgraduate Students Research Festival shared with the Department of Psychology, allowing research students from both departments to showcase their own research projects.

In addition to their personal research, academic staff engaged in the sub-disciplines of speech pathology and audiology are typically involved in considerable community outreach work involving consultancy and clinical attachments. Similarly, professionally accredited academic staff in the translation and interpreting programs in the Department are encouraged to maintain their professional recognition status through outside practice. These activities themselves may give rise to the preparation of professional portfolios, reports, and other forms of evidence of activity.

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