Centre for Research in Language and Heritage (CREL)

The Centre for Research in Language and Heritage (CREL) is a multidisciplinary setting for the study of language that fosters research of international excellence and impact through collaboration, knowledge-exchange, training and mentorship. CREL hosts researchers from the areas of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Literature, Creative Writing, History, Psychology, Education, Sociology, Speech and Language Therapy and Mathematics and Computing. Collaboration across these disciplines enables the integration of insights from quantitative and cognitive analyses in the research of language and literature and enhances overall pathways to impact in, for example, education or speech and language therapy.

Speech patterns of people with depression and their therapists


Join Dr Laurence White, Senior Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, for a CREL seminar on how the speech patterns of people with depression and their therapists change over the course of treatment.

New exhibition highlighting the historic links between Greenwich and the Ottoman Empire to open at Charlton House


The exhibition open 9:30am, 15 May

The Centre is a multidisciplinary setting for the study of language that promotes the development of international and interdisciplinary collaborations, networks and partnerships to foster knowledge-exchange, training and mentorship. Members play a leading role in energising and sustaining national and international research networks, notably through participation on the boards of international learned societies and journals, conference plenaries and organisation, winning prizes, sitting on panels of national and international funding bodies and reading for learned journals and publishers.

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