Convenors of LARG
Convenors of the Language
& Asylum Research Group are:
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England, Australia
Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex, UK
Experience:
The Convenors have been involved in LADO since 2003. Both are founding
members of the Language & National Origin Group (LNOG) and helped co-author the
2004 Guidelines for the Use of Language Analysis in relation to Questions of
National Origin in Refugee Cases (available
via UNHCR's
RefWorld; see LADO Bibliography).
They are active in LADO research and/or practice, and in related fields of
sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics.
Their role, in consultation with the Advisory Panel, is to guide the Research
Group's agenda, to make decisions on managing resources and planning activities
- e.g., initiate meetings, promote publication and archiving of documents - to
decide on membership matters, and to facilitate active participation by LARG
members.
Email addresses for the Convenors are available on the
Contact page.