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On 23rd March, Manchester Q-Step centre held a Data Fellows day, celebrating the success of students who completed an external data fellowship (an internship) in the summer 2022. The event featured contributions from three LEL students: Hannah Hutt (Linguistics and Sociology), Leila Peltier (Chinese and Linguistics) and Leah Scott (English Language). They all presented posters […]
April 25, 2022 by manling
Comments Off on Linguistics Society now official!
Undergraduate students at LEL have founded a linguistics society, which is now The Linguistics Society, officially recognised by the Student Union. Below is a post by one of the co-founders, Alice Eddyshaw, about who they are and wha they do. This year myself and three other second year LEL students co-founded the Linguistics Society here […]
September 13, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Brendan Cox on his summer internship
A number of LEL students spent their summer doing an internship. Manchet will let you hear from some of them, starting with Brendan Cox’s account of his Research Experience Internship. My Student Experience Internship, led and supervised by Dr Richard Zimmermann, took place over the course of 8 weeks in the summer of 2021. Thanks […]
September 2, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Siena Weingartz scoops up an LAGB award
Congratulations to LEL alumna, Siena Weingartz who has won this year’s LAGB (Linguistics Association for Great Britain) Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation in Linguistics. There is a national competition for the award in which only four students can triumph, so it’s quite an achievement. In fact, Manchet can reveal that Siena is the first Manchester […]
July 22, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on Q-Step award for Qingcheng Zeng
Third year Linguistics student, Qingcheng Zeng, has won this year’s Q-Step award for the best quantitative dissertation. The competition includes a number of degree courses: Criminology, English Language / Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Studies and International Relations, Social Anthropology and Sociology. Qingcheng’s dissertation was judged best overall, winning praise for exceptionally advanced analysis. The dissertation compares various […]
June 18, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on PASS scheme recognised in SU Education awards
LEL’s PASS (Peer Assisted Study Scheme) has been recognised in the Student Union Education awards, as a runner-up for the Newcomer award. Not just that, our PASS Student Coordinator, Yufei Song (pictured below), won an Outstanding Contribution Award. Here’s a short quote from the nomination document. Our nominee is the most inclusive, welcoming and enthusiastic […]
April 20, 2021 by manling
Comments Off on LEL students at ULAB
Three LEL students are presenting this week at ULAB conference, an annual meeting showcasing undergraduate research in linguistics. This year’s ULAB is hosted virtually by The University of Aberdeen, and features the following contributions by Manchester students: “Defining Serial Verb Constructions in Thai”Tim Jantarungsee “Storyboards for Semantic Fieldwork: Looking at Ndebele language data from the […]
November 18, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Qingcheng Zeng at EMNLP workshop
Qingcheng Zeng, a level 3 Linguistics student, is participating in the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing this week. Qincheng’s paper, joint with Xiaoyang Fang, Zhexin Liang and Haoding Meng is part of the The 6th W-NUT (2020) Workshop. The paper’s title is “Fancy Man Launches Zippo at WNUT 2020 Shared Task-1: A Bert Case Model […]
November 13, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Pets you could never PASS up on
A pet post to end all pet posts (though hopefully not) – enjoy these majestic animals submitted by the Session 1 PASS students, with their own commentary. If we were meeting in person our conversations—like typical students—would have consisted of food, go-to snacks and sharing best places to eat around Manchester. Snacks are the way […]
November 3, 2020 by manling
Comments Off on Pets of LEL: Remmie and Betsy
Say hello to Remmie and Betsy, submitted by Neve a.k.a. Remy (nickname similarity not coincidental). Neve is a first year student in English Language with French, and the first year student rep. This is Remmie, the cheeky pony. Likes: food. Any food, pony-friendly or not (she once tried to eat a sausage butty, but her […]
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April 11, 2023 by manling
Comments Off on LEL students on their summer internships