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Professor Janice Carruthers is a Professor of French Linguistics and Dean of Research at Queen's University Belfast's Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for Modern Languages and leads research on French sociolinguistics, language policy, and multilingualism. Her work spans oral narrative analysis, regional languages like Breton and Occitan, and education policy in the UK and Ireland.
Education: BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (Cambridge University), MPhil in Linguistics, PhD in French Linguistics (Cambridge University).
Research Interests: French language structure, sociolinguistic variation, language policy, oral narratives, corpus linguistics, and multilingualism. She leads AHRC-funded projects on language policy in devolved UK regions and collaborates on a national languages strategy for the UK.
Recent Articles: Focused on language education trajectories, minoritized language vitality, and policy impacts. Key outputs include edited volumes on French sociolinguistics and policy briefings for UK educational reforms.
Awards: Knight of the Order of Palmes Académiques (France, 2021), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2021).
Supervision & Grants: Supervised PhDs on topics like sports commentary linguistics and asylum seeker discourse. Active in grant initiatives including Horizon 2020 (Marie Curie Fellowship) and AHRC projects.
Labs/Teams: Leads Queen's strand of the AHRC Multilingualism Project (MEITS) and collaborates with institutions like Cambridge and Edinburgh universities.
