Our Visiting Professor for 2015-18 was Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of York.

We are immensely grateful for Paul's contributions during these three years. His talks are listed below.

2015-16

• 22 February 2016: The media engaging linguists: a two-way street? (slides here, video here)
• 4 April 2016: 30 years of (mostly) successful funding bids: a sociolinguist’s experience (not put online)

2016-17

• 8 December 2016: Multicultural London English: a new dialect, a style, or both?(slides here, no video)
• 22 March 2017: The contested role of English in West Africa - Ghana (slides here, video here)

2017-18

• 13 November 2017: From cool to bad and back again: Multicultural London English and the media 2005-2017 (slides here, video here)
• 19 April 2018: 50 years of British sociolinguistics: What do we know now that we didn't know before? (slides here, video here)