Associate members in Languages and Linguistics

Professor Malachy O'Neill

Director of Regional Engagement

Professor Ailbhe Ó Corráin

Emeritus Professor of Irish

Ailbhe Ó Corráin holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Irish at Ulster University.

Professor Séamus Mac Mathúna

Emeritus Professor of Irish and Celtic Studies

Séamus Mac Mathúna holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Irish and Celtic Studies at Ulster University. Details on his work and career can be found in his CV.

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Professor John Gillespie

Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature

John Gillespie holds the title of Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature at Ulster University. Details on his work and career can be found in his CV.

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Professor David Barr

Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning

A native of Ballymena, Professor David Barr studied at Ulster for his undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

He wrote his PhD on the role of computer technology in language learning and teaching, which has since been published as a research monograph. As part of this project, he carried out work at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto.

David is currently Head of the School of Education, having previously served as the Head of the School of Languages and Cultures and then Modern Languages, as well as Faculty Learning and Teaching Coordinator.

He has significant experience of working with a range of employers, public and government bodies to promote awareness the importance of subject development for the local economy and has led significant developments in the modern languages as well as presently leading a review of provision in education.

He is also a leading expert in computer-assisted language learning, serving as associate editor for two leading international journals in the area, and is a member of the WorldCALL steering committee: a seven- person advisory group with representatives from all over the world to support the development and direction of computer-assisted language learning internationally and is chair of the WorldCALL international scientific committee.

Education

• 2004: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching,  Ulster University
• 2003: Ph.D. ('Computer Based Language Learning Environments for Foreign Languages'), Ulster University
• 1999: B.A. (First Class Honours) in Applied Languages (French and Spanish),  Ulster University

Research Fields

Computer-assisted language learning, digital teaching methodologies, hybrid learning

Professor Elena Anagnostopoulou

Elena Anagnostopoulou obtained her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Salzburg in 1994. After a post-doc at MIT (1997-1998), where she returned in 2007 as a Visiting Associate Professor, she took a position at the University of Crete in 1998, where she is currently Professor of Theoretical Linguistics.

Her research interests lie in theoretical and comparative syntax, formal linguistic typology, morphology and historical linguistics, with special focus on the interfaces between syntax, morphology, and the lexicon, argument alternations, Case, Agreement, clitics, control and anaphora. In 2013 she received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, in recognition of her past accomplishments in research and teaching.

She is the author of The Syntax of Ditransitives. Evidence from Clitics (Mouton de Gruyter 2003), co-author of External Arguments in Transitivity Alternations: A Layering Approach (Oxford University Press 2015), and has edited 3 collective volumes and has published in journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings.

She is Co-I of the project “Investigating Variation and Change: Case in Diachrony”.

Dr Jacqueline Borsje

Dr Jacqueline Borsje is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion and Celtic Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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Professor Fionntán de Brún

Fionntán de Brún is Professor of Modern Irish at Maynooth University.

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Nicole Gotzner

Nicole Gotzner is a professor in the Cognitive Science Institute at Osnabrück University.

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Dr Iain MacPherson

Dr Iain MacPherson is a Lecturer in Scottish Gaelic Language and Literature at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands.

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