UCom - Ulster University Centre on Multilingualism
About UCoM
Inspired by the success of Bilingualism Matters in Scotland, the linguistics team at Ulster have established UCoM to provide a local service to share current research on multilingualism with families and professionals in Northern Ireland by:
- offering detailed information on several key questions on multilingual language acquisition and development;
- addressing frequently asked questions and concerns by parents and language professionals;
- organising events in the community where the benefits as well as the challenges of the process of growing up multilingual will be discussed with interested parties.
Current research in linguistics and language acquisition shows a range of benefits from growing up with more than one language.
If you would like us to organise a talk in your school/community centre contact us at ucom@ulster.ac.uk
Our people
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Dr Catrin Rhys
Associate Head of School of Communication & Media School of Communication and Media +44 28 9036 6463 cs.rhys@ulster.ac.uk 17E19 - Jordanstown campus -
Dr Christina Sevdali
Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Media +44 28 9036 6402 c.sevdali@ulster.ac.uk 17E08 - Jordanstown campus -
Dr Jacopo Romoli
Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Media +44 28 9036 6861 j.romoli@ulster.ac.uk 17E10 - Jordanstown campus -
Dr Philip McDermott
Senior Lecturer School of Applied Social and Policy Sc. +44 28 7167 5519 p.mcdermott@ulster.ac.uk MF009 - Magee campus -
Professor Raffaella Folli
Provost of the Belfast/Jordanstown campus Provost J/town & Belfast +44 28 9536 7574 r.folli@ulster.ac.uk BA-05-014 - Jordanstown campusAs Provost of the Jordanstown and Belfast campuses Raffaella plays a key role in the development of the enhanced Belfast city campus and leads the links to local communities by promoting the vision of third level education as key to social development. Raffaella is also the Head of School of Communication.