Nick Smith

Nick Smith is an Associate Professor at the School of Education, University of Leicester. His work focuses on applied linguistics with specialization in corpus linguistics methodologies and variation/change in English language usage. He co-authored the influential 2009 publication Change in Contemporary English (Cambridge UP).

Research interests include: regional/social dialects, World Englishes, historical spelling variation, and corpus-based language pedagogy. His methodological contributions cover corpus design principles and linguistic annotation techniques.

No academic awards explicitly listed in profile. Current supervision/grants status not detailed here. Active in press/media engagements related to language change topics.