RESEARCH
Our Faculty and School aims are to deliver significant, sustained, valuable economic and societal research in Wales, UK and internationally by working with some of the brightest and best researchers from around the world.
The English Language, TESOL and Applied Linguistics department has a vibrant research culture with areas of research investigation across a breadth of disciplines including language policy, applied linguistics, vocabulary / lexical studies, Computer Assisted Language Learning, literary linguistics, dialect, language acquisition, and discourse analysis.
HOW WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE Improving feedback literacy in TESOL Development of language aptitude tests for vocabulary learning Using eye-tacking to improve language-learning presentation formats
Exploring uses of AI in linguistics Work on the National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh (CorCenCC) Discourse of classroom settings
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Personal Chair, Applied Linguistics
Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus’ research focuses on the ‘dark side’ of social media, working to help combat individuals and groups looking to deceive, manipulate, exploit and incite violence. Specifically, she examines the communication tactics that they use: the words they use and the images they post. The research programme that Professor Lorenzo-Dus leads is called Developing Resilience against Online Grooming (DRaOG). She works with a team of linguists, criminologists, computer scientists and in partnership with law enforcement agencies and charities internationally. As part of the DRaOG programme they are identifying the manipulative tactics that adults use when seeking to sexually groom minors online, and – most importantly - using the results of this research to develop individual and social resilience against it. Professor Nuria Lorenzo-Dus participated in series one of Swansea University’s Global Problems Podcast series sharing how her ground-breaking research helps to develop social resilience to combat online child sexual grooming
EXPLORING GLOBAL PROBLEMS EPISODE 13: ONLINE CHILD SEXUAL GROOMING: HOW CAN WE DEVELOP SOCIAL RESILIENCE TO COMBAT IT? PROFESSOR NURIA LORENZO-DUS
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