Three doctors!

29 April 2024

From three successful submissions to three new doctors – well done Dr. Soto, Dr. Martin, and Dr. O’Gara!

Image of Laurie and lab members celebrating viva success outside a cafe in Colchester

Alumni news

22 April 2024

Former L+PLUS Lab members are making a splash!

Congrats to Ehsan Solaimani on his new position at the University of Friborg in the ABCCD Lab, to Inma Soto on starting up at the Bilingualism and Psycholinguistics Research Lab at Northwestern, and to Willem van Boxtel who has accepted a tenure-track post at Louisiana State University in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders!

Coming soon

10 April 2024

Xiaoduan and Laurie have a chapter coming out soon in a new book: Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language.

If you’re interested in quantitative approaches to measuring gender bias and language attitudes, or more generally in linguistic sexism in Chinese, check it out!

Three submissions!

16 January 2024

In what will be long remembered as a historic day in the L+PLUS Lab, three of our lab members submitted their dissertations this week!

Huge congratulations to Inma, Fate, and Stephanie for getting those dissertations in, and best of luck with your vivas!

LabPhon special collection

13 December 2023

The first article in the Journal of Laboratory Phonology special collection Distanced data collection: Remote data collection and online experimentation is out!

Laurie has been working with colleagues Indranil Dutta, Katerina Iliopoulou and Yu-Jung Lin to edit this volume following the successful LabPhon18 conference. If you’re interested in new methods of data collection for phonetics and phonology research, check it out!

SNL 2023

23 October 2023

We’re in Marseille for SNL 2023!

Here’s L+PLUS Lab member Stephanie Martin presenting her work in session C, showing off some excellent work on lexical processing in bilingual children with DLD. Lab alum Willem van Boxtel also brought two excellent posters in sessions B and C outlining new work on structural priming in aphasia. Great to see so much great research this year!

Image of the a researcher standing in front of a scientific poster with her work on bilingual children with DLD

Lab trip

25 June 2023

The L+PLUS Lab went on location for our end-of-year bash. Here’s to the end of a very successful year!

Image of the L+PLUS Lab members and families in a park in Bury St Edmunds

Supervisor of the Year

08 June 2023

Laurie won the PhD Supervisor of the Year award for Social Sciences this year. Thanks to everyone who nominated her!

Laurie and lab members sitting in theatre seats at an awards ceremony