Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, Head of Hispanic Studies, will be presenting at Canning House in London next week, on Thursday 9 May. Based in Belgrave … Read more
Category: News
SECL linguist to appear on BBC1’s The One Show
Dr David Hornsby, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, will appear on the popular BBC programme The One Show this evening (19 April) at 7pm. … Read more
Funding award for the archaeological study of everyday Roman objects
Dr Ellen Swift, Senior Lecturer from the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, has won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her research project entitled ‘Design … Read more
New publication from German staff
Dr Ian Cooper, within the Department of German, has just published his co-edited collection Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity (Peter Lang, … Read more
Call for Summer School Scholarship applications
As part of the University of Kent’s 50th anniversary celebrations we are delighted to announce 50 Summer School Scholarships in Brussels and Paris. The scholarships … Read more
Linguistics lecturer wins funding for research on Russian language
Dr Luisa Marti, Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, has been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research grant for an experimental study of the … Read more
SECL students interviewed on French TV
Over the Easter weekend, the French TV channel France3 broadcast of report on the country’s plans to introduce a student evaluation system of courses and … Read more
Research call for English-to-French bilingual participants
Two SECL researchers, Dr Marina Kolokonte and Dr Vikki Janke from the Department of English Language and Linguistics, are seeking English-French bilinguals for help with … Read more
Postgraduate study Q&A
For those thinking of postgraduate study in any of the subject areas offered by SECL – Classics & Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English Language & Linguistics, … Read more
Journalist from The Guardian to give SECL lecture
Ian Cobain, author of Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture (Portobello Press, 2012), will be discussing the UK’s long-standing secretive policies of torture as … Read more



