Board of Institutional Representatives

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  Michael Goessler

  University of Edinburgh

  Michael is a third-year linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh and currently president of Edinburgh’s Linguistics Society. Originally from Styria, Austria, he entered the world of linguistics as a conlanger, knowing from age 15 he wanted to make language science his degree. Besides the joys of morphosyntax and pretending to believe in Universal Grammar, he spends most of his time playing the trumpet and having writer’s blocks or trying to find more stuff to do while quietly (and not so quietly) complaining about how busy he is.
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  James Morley

  University of Cambridge

  James is a first-year undergraduate in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He’s enjoyed exploring all aspects of linguistics so far, but some of the topics he’s found most exciting to explore are generative syntax and the Minimalist Program, morphological theory and its interface with syntax, and ellipsis phenomena. Outside of linguistics, he is a big fan of watching fast cars go round in circles, and enjoys taking part in quizzes.
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  Roma Dhasmana

  University of Aberdeen

  Ro is a second-year Linguistics and Spanish undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen. Her main interests lie in second language acquisition and syntax. When not studying, she can be found singing in choirs, listening to horror podcasts, and thinking about cats.
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  Grace Cotton

  University of Ulster

  Grace is a Language and Linguistic student heading into her final year at Ulster University. She has a particular love for studying Children’s Language and Phonetics. Along with this, Grace enjoys the studying dialects and other topics within Sociolinguistics. Outside of University, she plays hockey, loves reading and being involved in as much as she can.
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  Eloise Parr

  University of Birmingham

  Eloise Parr (she/her) is a second year PhD linguistics student at the University of Birmingham. She graduated from Coventry University with a BA (Hons) in English and then a MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Birmingham. Her research is using corpus-assisted metaphor analysis to explore pregnancy metaphors. When not doing linguistics, Eloise can be found reading, tending to her plant babies, or unironically enjoying a Zoom quiz!
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  Charlie Cross

  Bangor University

  Charlie is a second-year student studying Linguistics and the English Language at Bangor University. He enjoys language change and etymology. He is also a fan of pragmatics and implicature, particularly in relation to autism. In his spare time he is usually coming up with things to write about but never writing about them, fencing, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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  Jaidan McLean

  University of Oregon

  Jaidan is a third-year undergraduate linguistics student at the University of Oregon. They are particularly interested in sociolinguistics and language variation, with a little semantics thrown in there to spice it up. Jaidan is also currently an undergraduate member of the UO Linguistics Department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in hopes to create more discussion and change for equal education around linguistic diversity. Outside of linguistics, they enjoy learning new languages (as they have been studying Mandarin for 4 years now), painting, and listening to the entire discography of any new band they find.
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  Maggie Mi

  Lancaster University

  Maggie is a third-year Linguistics student studying at Lancaster University.
  Her passion for linguistics was kindled by her first linguistics book (Atoms of Language - Mark Baker) and linguistics puzzles. Currently, she is particularly fascinated by NLP, computational research in semantics, syntax, morphology and corpus research. When she is not thinking about syntax trees and programming, she is a full-time tea enthusiast, campanologist and tree-watcher.
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  Cecilia Tang

  University of Manchester

  Cecilia is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Manchester. They’ve enjoyed exploring a lot of areas of linguistics, but they are most interested in first and second language acquisition, as well as cross-linguistic variation. Outside of linguistics, they enjoy reading, listening to music and appreciating gay memes.
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  Caren Chua

  King’s College London

  Caren is a final year English Language and Linguistics student at King’s College London, and is currently the Vice President of the KCL Linguistics Society. Her interests lie in language learning and teaching, language policy and planning, as well as comparative historical linguistics. An avid linguaphile, she is currently studying Japanese and Korean, and hopes to one day dabble into European languages such as Russian, Italian and German. Beyond languages and linguistics, Caren can often be found jamming out to heavy metal music, watching films, reading books and trying to cook different recipes!
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  Emily Shepherdson

  University of York

  Emily (she/they) is a second year undergraduate in Linguistics with Italian at the University of York. She particularly loves learning about communication disorders, language acquisition and forensic linguistics. Outside of linguistics, they can be found reading, writing and unironically enjoying terrible sci-fi fantasy shows.
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  Simran Hussain

  University College London

  Simran is a second year undergraduate linguistics student. Her interests lie in pragmatics, sociolinguistics and phonetics. In her spare time, she enjoys buying books just to not read them, candle-making and mildly pretentious indie music.