Małgorzata Kul

Małgorzata Kul is Professor of English Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, based in the Faculty of English, Collegium Heliodori Święcicki. She holds the Polish post-doctoral degree dr hab. and the title Professor UAM.

Her research centres on English phonetics and phonology, with particular focus on natural phonology, articulatory effort, phonological reduction in casual speech, and the acoustic analysis of speech using corpus methods. She has led several National Science Centre projects and participated in EU Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+ initiatives. She teaches descriptive grammar, phonetics & phonology, and pronunciation pedagogy at BA and MA levels.

Education

• MA in English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2002
• PhD in English Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 2007

Research grants

• National Science Centre OPUS: “Probabilistic, prosodic and discourse effects on acoustic distinctiveness in speech” (2020-2023, PI)
• National Science Centre: “Corpus-based analysis and description of phonostylistic processes in Lancashire” (2012-2015, PI)
• Ministry of Science & Higher Education: “Online corpus of modern, standard spoken Polish language in the Wielkopolska region” (2013-2017, PI)

Scientific awards

• Best Young Scholar's Poster, International Conference “Sociophonetics at the crossroads…”, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

International collaboration & visits

• Erasmus+ staff mobility, Leiden University Center for Linguistics, 2022
• Academic exchange, University of Thessaloniki, 2019
• Erasmus+ staff mobility, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 2016 & 2015
• Erasmus staff mobility, Bielefeld University, 2014
• Erasmus staff mobility, Universitetet i Bergen, 2011; Universitetet i Tromsø, 2003
• Tempus Phare, University College Northampton, 2000

She has co-organised the international conferences New Sounds 2010 and the 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2014), both held in Poznań.