The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
The University is situated right in the city centre directly in front of the Haymarket metro stop. If you are arriving at central station you can either take the metro to Haymarket or walk through the town centre.
Newcastle University is one of the top 15 UK research universities, measured by the volume of externally-funded research. It is one of the leading participants in EU programmes and has a high level of funding from industry. Facilities include the Robinson Library, reputed to be the richest universitylibrary in the UK, the Walton Library (Medical and Dental), an Open Access Centre with 144 places for computer assisted language learning, an Audio-Visual Centre providing multimedia teaching and video-conferencing over SuperJANET, and an 18 hole golf course at Close House in the Tyne Valley. The University was voted the University of the Year by The Times in September 2000.
The University has its origin in a School for medical practitioners (later the College of Medicine) which started in 1834 and the College of Physical Science (later Armstrong College) founded in 1871. Both these separate and independent institutions later became part of the University of Durham, whose 1908 Act formally recognised that the University consisted of two Divisions, Durham and Newcastle, on two different sites. By 1908, the Newcastle Division was teaching a full range of subjects in the Faculties of Medicine, Arts, and Science, which also included agriculture and engineering. In 1937, the Armstrong College and the College of Medicine were merged into King's College. Continued growth of both the Durham and Newcastle Divisions eventually led to the separation in 1963 when the University of Newcastle upon Tyne came into being. Today, the University has over 17,000 students and 5,000 staff, located on a 45-acre site in the city centre as well as number of laboratories, farms and centres on outlying sites.
Linguistics at Newcastle
The University of Newcastle upon Tyne has a long history of teaching and research in linguistics. In the days when the University was part of the University of Durham, eminent scholars such as Charles Randolph Quirk were teaching English language and linguistics here. After the University came into its separate existence in 1963, Barbara Strang, a well known historian of English language, held the first Chair in English Language and Linguistics. She led the Tyneside Linguistic Survey during the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Noel Osselton, the lexicographer, held the Chair in English Language, and Richard Bailey, the Chair in Anglo-Saxon Civilisation.
In the meantime, the University has had a range of linguistics expertise in various departments. Most notably, Ruth Lesser, a leading psycholinguist, held the first Chair of Speech & Language Pathology in the Department of Speech until 1995. Lesley Milroy, also in the Department of Speech, held a personal Chair of Sociolinguistics until 1998. In the School of Modern Languages, Anthony Lodge held the Chair in French Language until 1995, and the sociolinguist Anthony Edwards held the Chair in Education until 1997.
Currently linguistics teaching and research at Newcastle University is conducted in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics (ELLL), the School of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences (ECLS), the School of Modern Languages (SML), and the Language Centre.
The conference venue
Registration and all sessions for the LAGB conference will take place in the Bedson building, located on the main university campus. The registration desk will be open from 11am on Weds 30th September so that delegates can receive their conference packs and badges. There will also be a pre-conference luncheon for those who so desire, also in the Bedson building at 1pm.
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