About MCRL
Thematically, our work across explores language in relation to a broad set of contemporary issues and contexts, contributing to world-leading research that complexifies our understanding of language in the world.
Our Vision
To be a supportive and inclusive research environment where researchers feel empowered and valued as part of a cross-disciplinary critical mass situated within a dynamic structure that is internationally recognised for research excellence and innovation
Our key research areas
Broadly, we see our work as a form of Linguistics in Action, guided by our aims of affecting change and leading developments in social justice. In response to these aims, our work addresses a number of key research areas through a linguistic lens:
| artificial intelligence | climate change |
| cognition | communication |
| education | gender |
| global crises | identity |
| knowledge construction | language variation |
| linguistic diversity | manipulation and deception |
| methodology and theory | neurodiversity |
| place | politics |
| raciolinguistics | social justice |
Our work in these areas is underpinned by expertise in sociolinguistics, critical applied linguistics, intercultural communication, pragmatics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, psycholinguistics, literacies including digital literacies.