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Professor Celia Roberts

Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics

Biography

Research

Celia's research is concerned with language and ethnicity. She uses two qualitative methodologies, Interactional Sociolinguistics and ethnography to look at disadvantages faced by linguistic and ethnic minorities in interaction with institutions.

Celia's publications cover patient-health professional communication, language and cultural practices in the workplace, English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) and institutional selection processes and their potential for indirect discrimination. In the last five years she has directed six government-funded research projects on health communication, selection interviewing and ESOL.

For further details please see her  Research Staff Profile.

Teaching

MRes LDCMA dissertation workshops.

Research

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Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)

The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.

Events

13Sepbook-2736043_1920

Book launch: Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview

The book launch of Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview by Celia Robert

Please note: this event has passed.

Research

books-1204029_1920
Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC)

The Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication is a major centre for descriptive linguistics, applied linguistics and language in education.

Events

13Sepbook-2736043_1920

Book launch: Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview

The book launch of Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview by Celia Robert

Please note: this event has passed.