Conference presentations/workshops:

I regularly attend and present at national and international conferences. These have included the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference, the Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC), the British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, the Corpus Linguistics in the South Conference, the IATEFL Conference, the ICAME Conference, the International Corpus Linguistics Conference, the IVACS International Biennial Conference and the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies Annual Conference. Full list of conference contributions:

Plenary/keynote/featured talks

• Love, R. (2022). Comparing transcripts of indistinct audio. Symposium – Transcription in Legal Contexts: Problems and Solutions. University of Melbourne, Australia. June 2022.
• Love, R. (2021). Tracking changes in swearing in spoken English. English and Media Centre A level English Language student conference, Friends Meeting House, London, UK. November 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). What have we learned about spoken English from the British National Corpus? Cambridge Insights on Demand. Cambridge University Press, UK. May 2021.
• Love, R. (2018). Overcoming challenges in corpus linguistics: reflections on the Spoken BNC2014. 9^th Biennial IVACS Conference. University of Malta, Valetta, Malta. June 2018.

Forthcoming

• Haworth, K., Love, R., & Tompkinson, J. (forthcoming). Transcription of spoken data: insights, challenges, dilemmas. Symposium, BAAL 2023 Conference. University of York, UK. August 2023.
• Love, R. (forthcoming). Exploring the weakening of ‘fuck’ in casual conversation. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2023. Lancaster University, UK. July 2023.
• Love, R., Clarke, I., & McGlashan, M. (forthcoming). Evaluating collocation in spoken dialogic corpora. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2023. Lancaster University, UK. July 2023.
• Love, R. (forthcoming). British English swearing in corpora of casual conversation. SwiSca 8 / CRAP Swearing Research Symposium. Keele University, UK. June 2023.

2023

• Darics, E., & Love, R. (2023). Hands 👋, Face 😷, Space ↔️: The communicative role of emoji in public communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Association for Business Communication Regional Conference Naples 2023. University Federico II, Italy. January 2023.

2022

• Love, R., Darics, E., & Palmieri, R. (2022). Localising the national message: A corpus-based study of local government social media posts about Covid-19. BAAL 2022 Conference. Queen’s University Belfast, UK. September 2022.
• Love, R., & Stenström, A-B. (2022). Challenges in deriving a new COLT from the Spoken BNC2014: the case of teenage swearing. ICAME 43 Conference. Anglia Ruskin University, UK. July 2022.
• Harrington, L., Love, R., & Wright, D. (2022). Analysing the performance of automated transcription tools for covert audio recordings (Poster). IAFPA 2022 Conference. Charles University, Czech Republic. July 2022.
• Love, R., & Darics, E. (2022). Digital public communication in the pandemic: A corpus-based analysis of Covid-19 local government social media posts. CADAAD 2022 Conference. University of Bergamo, Italy. July 2022.

2021

• Giovanelli, M., & Love, R. (2021). Lockdown reading habits: investigating a survey corpus. Aston Corpus Linguistics Symposium. Aston University, UK.
• Darics, E., Love, R., Palmeri, R., & Caveney, D. (2021). Persuasiveness through engagement: local government organisations’ public communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. ABC Vienna 2020: Association for Business Communication Regional Conference Vienna 2020. Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. August 2021.
• Love, R., Candarli, D., & Deignan, A. (2021). Teacher talk and the school transition: comparing primary and secondary classroom speech. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021 (merged with the 10^th Biennial IVACS Conference). University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. July 2021.
• Love, R., & Curry, N. (2021). Recent change in modality in informal spoken British English. Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2021 (merged with the 10^th Biennial IVACS Conference). University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. July 2021.

2020

• Curry, N., Love, R., & Goodman, O. (2020). Investigating publisher application of corpus research on recent language change to ELT coursebook development. Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JAECS) 46^th Annual Conference (online). Waseda University, Japan. October 2020.

2019

• Candarli, D., Love, R., & Deignan, A. (2019). Rhetorical variation in teachers’ lesson presentations across Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group Annual Workshop. Lancaster University, UK. November 2019.
• Love, R. (2019). Building and analysing a national corpus of informal spoken English: the Spoken BNC2014. Spoken language across time: Celebrating the launch of the London-Lund Corpus 2. Lund University, Sweden. September 2019.
• Love, R., & Anthony, L. (2019). Advancing the text-level and sub-text-level analysis of corpora. Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019. Cardiff University, UK. July 2019.
• Candarli, D., Love, R., & Deignan, A. (2019). Using corpora to explore the language challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019. Cardiff University, UK. July 2019.
• Goodman, O., & Love, R. (2019). 1000 hours of conversations: what does it mean for ELT? 53rd Annual IATEFL Conference & Exhibition. Liverpool, UK. April 2019.

2018

• Love, R. (2018). Invited plenary: Overcoming challenges in corpus linguistics: reflections on the Spoken BNC2014. 9^th Biennial IVACS Conference. University of Malta, Valetta, Malta. June 2018.

2017

• Love, R. (2017). Opportunities in opportunism: a critical evaluation of data collection methods in the Spoken BNC2014. Corpus Linguistics in the South 15. University of Cambridge, UK. October 2017.
• Love, R. (2017). Bad language revisited: swearing in the Spoken BNC2014. Corpus Linguistics 2017 Conference. University of Birmingham, UK. July 2017.
• Love, R. and Hardie, A. (2017). Introducing the Spoken BNC2014 – explore the data yourself. Pre-conference workshop. Corpus Linguistics 2017 Conference. University of Birmingham, UK. July 2017.
• Love, R., Dembry, C., & Hardie, A. (2017). The Spoken BNC2014: Designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations. Spoken BNC2014 Symposium. Lancaster University, UK.
• Love, R. (2017). FUCK in spoken British English revisited with the Spoken BNC2014. ICAME 38 Conference. Charles University, Czech Republic. May 2017.

2016

• Love, R. (2016). “Accent – General American; Dialect – British English”: reflections on tricky metadata in the Spoken BNC2014. American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) 2016 Conference. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA. September 2016.
• Love, R. (2016). Sociolinguistics for spoken corpora: swearing in the Spoken BNC2014. Sociolinguistics Summer School 7. Université de Lyon, France. June 2016.
• Love, R. (2016). “Normal with a brummy twang”: dealing with metadata in the Spoken BNC2014. IVACS 2016 Conference. Bath Spa University, UK. June 2016.

2015

• Love, R. and Dembry, C. (2015). Who says what in spoken corpora?: speaker identification in the Spoken BNC2014. Corpus Linguistics 2015 Conference. Lancaster University, UK. July 2015.
• Dembry, C. and Love, R. (2015). Collecting the new Spoken BNC2014 – overview of methodology. Corpus Linguistics 2015 Conference. Lancaster University, UK. July 2015.
• Love, R. (2015). The life and death of a gay footballer: from concern about homosexuality to concern about homophobia in the UK press. Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching 2015. Lancaster University, UK. July 2015.
• Love, R. (2015). Critical issues in spoken corpus development: defining a transcription schema for the spoken BNC2014. ICAME 36 Conference. University of Trier, Germany. May 2015.

2014

• Love, R. (2014). “He’s got it locked in!”: Metaphor in professional wrestling commentary. 5^th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Lancaster University, UK. July 2014.
• Love, R. (2014). Representations of Muslim people in the British national press after the 2013 Woolwich murder: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. April 2014.
• Love, R. (2014). Representations of Muslim people and Islam in the British national press after the 2013 Woolwich murder: a corpus analysis. 2^nd Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. March 2014.

2013

• Love, R. (2013). Using corpus linguistics to investigate discourses of same-sex marriage in the UK Parliament. 3^rd Annual Boya 2013 Forum Undergraduate Conference. Beijing Foreign Studies University, People’s Republic of China. September 2013.
• Love, R. (2013). Under the surface of the Marriage Equality debate: discourses of same-sex marriage in the House of Commons (Poster). Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Launch, Corpus Linguistics 2013 Conference. Lancaster University, UK. July 2013.

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Invited talks, workshops and training:

Forthcoming

• Love, R. (forthcoming). Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Query Systems. Diponegoro Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. Diponegro University, Indonesia. July 2023.
• Love, R. (forthcoming). Language change in contemporary spoken British English. LITDRIVECPD23: The Value of Collaboration. Aston University, UK. July 2023.

2023

• Love, R. (2023). Recent change in English. A Level English Language Conference. Aston University, UK. April 2023.
• Love, R. (2023). Designing a spoken corpus: data collection and transcription. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP), training module LISS293. King’s College London, UK. March 2023.
• Love, R. (2023). The science of swearing. Society Matters LIVE, Birmingham, UK. March 2023.
• Love, R. (2023). Corpora and the study of variation and change in contemporary spoken English. Webinar, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. March 2023.
• Clayton, D., & Love, R. (2023). Language change and discourses for AQA A Level English Language. CPD course. English & Media Centre, UK. March 2023.

2022

• Love, R. (2022). Using corpora to explore variation and change in spoken English. Jilin University, China. December 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Swearing in spoken corpora. University of Bologna, Italy. December 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Corpus Linguistics [Video series]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/courses/corpus-linguistics/what-is-corpus-linguistics
• Darics, E., & Love, R. (2022). Hands , Face , Space : Emoji & public health communication. Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality. University of Bremen, Germany and University of Groningen, Netherlands. September 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Teenage swearing in British English: forms, functions and variation. Department of English and Communication Online Seminar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. September 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Analysing spoken corpora. Corpus Linguistics Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK. July 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Comparing transcripts of indistinct audio. Symposium – Transcription in Legal Contexts: Problems and Solutions. University of Melbourne, Australia. June 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Building and analysing corpora for discourse studies. University of Groningen, Netherlands. May 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Putting CADS to work: applications of corpus-assisted discourse studies. University of Groningen, Netherlands. May 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). The science of swearing. Pint of Science Festival, Birmingham, UK. May 2022.
• Clayton, D., & Love, R. (2022). Researching language change. EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Language change for AQA A-level English Language. English & Media Centre, UK. March 2022.
• Love, R., & Giovanelli, M. (2022). Lockdown reading habits: investigating a survey corpus. Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Discussion Group, Lancaster University, UK. March 2022.
• Love, R. (2022). Designing a spoken corpus: data collection and transcription. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP), training module LISS293. King’s College London, UK. February 2022.

2021

• Love, R. (2021). Challenges in deriving a new COLT from the Spoken BNC2014. Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE), Middle East Technical University, Turkey. December 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Modality in spoken British English. Survey of English Usage Seminar Series, University College London, UK. November 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Swearing in spoken British English: who gives a f*ck? Through the Language Lens (online seminar series). Aston University, UK. November 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Tracking changes in swearing in spoken English. English & Media Centre A level English Language student conference, Friends Meeting House, London, UK. November 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). New approaches to charting language change. English & Media Centre A Level English Language Teacher Conference. English and Media Centre, UK. October 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Analysing spoken corpora. XJTU Cloud Classrooms of Well-Known International Scholars. Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. July 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Designing a spoken corpus: data collection and transcription. London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP), training module LISS293. Queen Mary University of London, UK. March 2021.
• Love, R. (2021). Corpus linguistics. Graduate School Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar. Aston University, UK. March 2021.

2020

• Love, R. (2020). Maintaining wellbeing and succeeding as an Applied Linguistics postgraduate. BAAL Twitter event. November 2020.
• Love, R., & Deignan, A. (2020). Investigating the linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. Through the Language Lens (online seminar series). Aston University, UK. November 2020.

2019

• Love, R. (2019). Building and analysing a national corpus of spoken English for ELT research: the Spoken BNC2014 (guest webinar, postgraduate). Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. February 2019. Recording available here.
• Love, R. (2019). F*ck yeah! Swearing in spoken British English. LAEL Society, Lancaster University, UK. January 2019.
• Candarli, D., Love, R., & Deignan, A. (2019). Using corpora to investigate the linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. UCREL Corpus Research Seminar. Lancaster University, UK. January 2019. Video here.

2018

• Love, R. (2018). Overcoming challenges in corpus linguistics: Reflections on the Spoken BNC2014 (public lecture). Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. November 2018.
• Love, R., Curry, N., & Goodman, O. (2018). Keeping up with language change: Using the BNC2014 in ELT materials development. British National Corpus/Thai National Corpus Symposium. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. September 2018.
• Love, R., & Deignan, A. (2018). The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school: Using the BNC2014 in applied linguistics research. British National Corpus/Thai National Corpus Symposium. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. September 2018. Available here.
• Love, R. (2018). Designing and building the Spoken BNC2014. British National Corpus/Thai National Corpus Symposium. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. September 2018.
• Love, R. (2018). Using the Spoken BNC2014 with CQPweb. Workshop. Batumi VII International Summer School in Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics. Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia. August 2018.
• Love, R. (2018). Designing and building the Spoken BNC2014. Batumi VII International Summer School in Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia. August 2018.
• Love, R. (2018). Opportunities in opportunism: a critical evaluation of data collection methods in the Spoken BNC2014. Invited talk. Aston University, Birmingham, UK. March 2018.
• Love, R. (2018). Listening in on L1 British English chit chat: compiling the Spoken BNC2014. Cambridge Assessment English, University of Cambridge, UK. January 2018.

2017

• Love, R., & Dembry, C. (2017). Corpus linguistics, gender and language change. Workshop. Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, UK. December 2017.
• Love, R. (2017). The Spoken BNC2014: design, compilation and…bad language. Guest lecture. Charles University, Prague. December 2017.
• Love, R. (2017). Updating wordlists with the Cambridge Learner Corpus. Research seminar. Charles University, Prague. December 2017.
• Lloyd, J., & Love, R. (2017). Assessment in context: frameworks and impact. Cambridge English Assessment of Language Proficiency course. University of Cambridge, UK. September 2017.
• Lloyd, J., & Love, R. (2017). Assessing receptive skills. Cambridge English Assessment of Language Proficiency course. University of Cambridge, UK. September 2017.
• Love, R. (2017). Listening in on British chit chat: Building and using the Spoken BNC2014. LAEL Society talk. Lancaster University, UK. March 2017.
• Love, R. (2017). Listening in on British chit chat: Building and using the Spoken BNC2014. Nottingham University, UK. February 2017. Available here.

2016

• Love, R. (2016). “Normal with a brummy twang”: dealing with metadata in the Spoken BNC2014. UCREL Corpus Research Seminar. Lancaster University, UK. June 2016.

2015

• Love, R. (2015). The Spoken BNC2014: project update and methodological issues. Corpus linguistics workshop. Das Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim, Germany. December 2015.
• Love, R. (2015). Spoken English in UK society. ESRC Language Matters: Communication, Culture, and Society. International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK. November 2015.
• Love, R. (2015). Spoken BNC2014 transcriber workshop. Cambridge University Press, UK. May 2015.
• Love, R. (2015). Critical issues in spoken corpus development: the Spoken BNC2014 transcription scheme and speaker identification. UCREL Corpus Research Seminar. Lancaster University, UK. March 2015.

2014

• McEnery, T., Love, R., and Dembry, C. (2014). Words ‘yesterday and today’. ESRC Language Matters: Communication, Culture, and Society. Royal United Services Institute, London, UK. November 2014.
• Dembry, C. and Love, R. (2014). Spoken English in Today’s Britain. Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Cambridge University, UK. October 2014.
• Dembry, C. and Love, R. (2014). The Spoken BNC2014 project. ESRC staff meeting. ESRC Headquarters, Swindon, UK. September 2014.
• Love, R. (2014). The representation of Muslim people and Islam in the British press after the 2013 Woolwich attack: a corpus-assisted study. UCREL Corpus Research Seminar. Lancaster University, UK. March 2014.
• Love, R. (2014). Corpus Linguistics and the Press Reaction to the Woolwich Incident. LAEL Society talk. Lancaster University, UK. February 2014.
• Baker, P. and Love, R. (2014). “Homosexuals are delightful, artistic and loving people”: A diachronic corpus-assisted comparison of “no” speeches on gay rights debates in the UK Parliament. Research in Gender, Language and Sexuality. Lancaster University, UK. February 2014.

2013

• Love, R. (2013). Writing a dissertation: my experience. Guest talk for undergraduate Management students. Lancaster University Management School, UK. December 2013.
• Love, R.(2013). Investigating language: life after Astley…Guest talk for A-level English Language students. Astley Community High School, UK. December 2013.
• Love, R. (2013). Corpus linguistics and discourses of same-sex marriage in the UK Parliament. The Application of Linguistic Methods in Socio-Linguistic Research, PhD Workshop. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2013.