From 6 to 9 July 2026, the University of Birmingham is organising an online Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026. The programme is designed to cultivate participants’ ability to engage critically with corpus-based linguistic research, while equipping them with a solid grounding in both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of corpus linguistics. The event has been developed for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers.
The summer school will consist of synchronous and asynchronous activities. The synchronous (i.e. real-time) lectures and sessions will take place from 6 to 9 July 2026. Prior to these, participants will be expected to complete preparatory self-study tasks, including watching video lectures and undertaking practical exercises.
The programme will be announced at a later date; however, it typically covers the following topics (this list is not final and may be subject to change):
- ● Analysing healthcare data using corpus linguistics
- ● Analysing learner language
- ● Corpora and legal research
- ● Corpus triangulation
- ● CQPweb
- ● Fake news
- ● Introduction to R and tidyverse
- ● Language change in online data
- ● Sign language corpora
- ● Sketch Engine
- ● Tagging and parsing with Python and SpaCy
- ● Topic models
- ● Using corpus data in psycholinguistics
More information is available here.
Register for the Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2026 here.
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