Peter Peterson

Associate Professor Peter Peterson holds academic positions in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, specializing in Linguistics. His roles include Assistant Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Education and Arts and Honorary Associate Lecturer. He has extensive administrative experience, including leadership in Linguistics departments and program development for Speech Pathology and Applied Linguistics programs.

Dr. Peterson's research focuses on English syntax, particularly coordinate structures and relative clauses within a Lexical-Functional framework, alongside Second Language Acquisition (SLA) with a large learner English corpus. He has supervised 10 completed PhDs in areas like sociolinguistics and TESOL. His teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Linguistics and Children's Literature, with notable course and program development contributions.

Publications span syntax theory, SLA, and interdisciplinary topics like public diplomacy and wind energy. He has secured $10,110 in internal grants for linguistic research and conference support. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied contexts, emphasizing morphosyntactic development in learners and cross-disciplinary methodologies.