What next for languages research in the UK?

该项目解决了“英国语言研究的下一步是什么？”的挑战，通过a.评估当前的工作和能力，b.对新兴领域和新机会进行横向扫描，c.在研究领域，方法，产出和影响方面进行当前工作和能力之间的差距分析，以及语言研究的“理想未来状态”（本身就是一个需要仔细平衡竞争因素的概念）。该项目广泛咨询了英国所有职业阶段和所有研究机构的语言研究人员、获奖者、学科协会、外部利益相关者和潜在受益者，以及AHRC/UKRI，该项目将根据文献综述、现有工作的差距分析和更广泛的语言研究前景，生成一份包含一系列建议的报告。根据政府部门的研究兴趣领域和政策领域的需要，包括那些通常不受人权委员会资助的领域，绘制当前和潜在语言研究重点的地图。该项目将为AHRC、政府部门和其他潜在的最终用户、高等教育机构、学科协会以及最终从事语言研究的团队和个人提供坚实的基础，为全球语言研究和影响工作的新方向及其资助的战略决策提供坚实的基础。该项目的“全球语言”范围等同于人权委员会对“现代语言”的定义，即“当今世界上使用的任何语言，包括手语”。因此，“语言研究”的范围包括：历史上在大学“现代语言”中占主导地位的较大的现代欧洲语言；“较小的”欧洲语言（如荷兰语、葡萄牙语）；英国本土语言（如威尔士语）；后殖民社会的土著语言；少数民族语言（如法国的布列塔尼语）；英国的社区语言（如波兰语、古吉拉特语、手语）；以及，至关重要的是，其他主要的世界语言（如阿拉伯语，汉语，日语，乌尔都语）。（这些类别部分重叠）。具体而言，该项目将：1。评估当前英国基于语言的研究和影响格局2。在研究和影响中识别新的和正在出现的研究问题、主题、方法和方法。确定可能产生影响和影响的新领域，包括英国政府部门感兴趣的领域层面的政策，以及其他层面的政策制定和实施。确定研究和投入中可能被认为目前“代表性不足”的重点领域。确定英国语言研究人员参与和/或领导范围的优势、劣势、风险和机会：i.目前ahrc职权范围内的研究；2。应对当前挑战的资助呼吁的研究；还有……涉及非学术团体其他议程的研究（例如可持续发展目标的各个方面；政府部门的ARIs）通常不受人权委员会资助。该项目将包括定性和定量数据分析（例如AHRC/UKRI数据，以及相关的HESA， REF， KEF和HEBCI数据，取决于5个月内的可用性），桌面研究和文档分析。为了最大限度地提高语言研究领域（在所有职业阶段和所有环境下）的参与度和代表性，该项目还将纳入对问卷调查、访谈和焦点小组数据的评估。具体而言，该项目将征求以下方面的意见：award-holders;早期职业研究人员和研究生以及现有工作人员；并且（在AHRC团队以及诺丁汉大学与商业和政府的网络的帮助下），更广泛的利益相关者和（潜在的）基于语言的研究的最终用户，包括政府部门。

This project tackles the challenge of "What next for languages research in the UK?" by a. evaluating current work and capabilities, b. horizon-scanning for emerging areas and new opportunities, and c. undertaking a gap analysis between current work and capabilities in research areas, methods, outputs and impacts, and the "ideal future state" of languages research (itself a notion requiring careful balancing of competing factors). Consulting widely with languages researchers at all career stages and in all research settings in the UK, with award-holders, subject associations, external stakeholders and potential beneficiaries, and the AHRC/UKRI, the project will yield a report with a series of recommendations, based on a literature review, gap analysis of existing work and the wider languages research landscape, and a mapping of current and potential foci in languages research against the needs of government departments' areas of research interest (ARIs) and policy areas, including those not typically funded by the AHRC. The project will equip the AHRC, government departments and other potential end-users, HEIs, subject associations and, ultimately, teams and individuals engaged in languages research with a solid basis for strategic decision-making about new directions for global languages research & impact work and for its funding.The "global languages" remit of the project is equated here with the AHRC's definition of "Modern Languages" as "any language currently in use in the world today, including sign languages". The remit of "languages research" thus encompasses: the larger modern European languages that historically dominate "Modern Languages" at universities; "smaller" European languages (e.g. Dutch, Portuguese); the UK's indigenous languages (e.g. Welsh); the indigenous languages of postcolonial societies; minoritized languages (e.g. Breton within France); the UK's community languages (e.g. Polish, Gujarati, sign languages); as well as, crucially, other major world languages (e.g. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Urdu). (These categories partially overlap).Specifically, the project will:1. take stock of the current languages-based research and impact landscape in the UK2. identify new and emerging research questions, themes, approaches, and methods in research and impact3. identify new areas of potential impact and influence, including policy at the level of UK government departments' areas of interest as well as at other levels of policy-making and implementation4. identify areas of focus in research and input that may be considered to be currently "under-represented" 5. identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities regarding the scope of UK languages researchers to participate in and/or lead: i. current AHRC-remit research; ii. research that addresses current challenge-led funding calls; as well as iii. research addressing other agendas of non-academic communities (e.g. aspects of Sustainable Development Goals; Government departments' ARIs) not usually funded by the AHRC.The project will include analysis of qualitative and quantitative data (e.g. AHRC/UKRI data, and relevant HESA, REF, KEF, and HEBCI data, subject to availability within the 5-month timeframe), desk-based research, and document analysis. To maximize engagement and, accordingly, representativeness of the languages research landscape (at all career stages and in all settings), the project will also incorporate the evaluation of data from questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups. The project will, specifically, solicit input from: subject associations; award-holders; early career researchers and postgraduates as well as established staff; and (with assistance from the AHRC team as well as from the University of Nottingham's networks with business and government), wider stakeholders and (potential) end-users of languages-based research, including government departments.