Priority Area Leadership Fellowship in Modern Languages

该奖学金的领导层面将发展和支持英国现代语言的研究议程。我将与AHRC和现代语言社区合作，最大限度地扩大现代语言研究的机会；我将在学术界之外，特别是在政府中倡导这项研究的价值。特别是，我将与四个价值数百万英镑的开放世界项目合作，以促进项目之间协同领域的合作，并在更广泛的范围内发挥最大的影响力。我将定期与现代语言学科协会、现代语言学院、现代语言研究所、英国科学院和UCML的负责人保持联系，以促进英国在这一领域的研究优势，并利用新兴优势。在奖学金结束时，我希望看到英国的现代语言研究充满活力，可见，可持续，在资金机会方面得到良好支持，并对未来有明确的方向感。与该研究金有关的研究项目将在三个地方政府的语言政策领域。在该项目的研究助理的帮助下，我将探索苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰在外语学习、土著语言和传统语言方面的语言政策，试图绘制出目前的情况，促进三国之间的对话，讨论有问题的问题，至关重要的是，建立成功的语言学习增长战略。我们将进一步讨论少数民族语言领域的比较国，特别是爱尔兰共和国和法国。在研究结果的基础上，我们将为英国范围内的语言政策讨论做出贡献，将我们对地方政府的思考与Wendy Ayres-Bennett教授（剑桥：OWRI MEITS项目）对英格兰政策的研究结合起来。我们将与OWRI MEITS项目一起举办三个语言政策研讨会，在英国的一个下放地区举办一个政策研讨会，并在奖学金结束时在威斯敏斯特组织一个主要研讨会，该研讨会将在政府层面推动英国范围内的语言战略。

The leadership dimension of the Fellowship will develop and champion the research agenda in Modern Languages in the UK. I will work with the AHRC and the Modern Languages community to maximise opportunities for Modern Languages research; and I will champion the value of this research beyond the Academy, notably in government. In particular, I will work with the four multi-million pound Open World projects in order to facilitate collaboration in areas of synergy across the projects and to maximise their influence more broadly. I will liaise regularly with the Modern Languages Subject Associations, the heads of Schools of Modern Languages, the Institute of Modern Languages Research, the British Academy and UCML in the promotion of the UK's research strengths in this area and in harnessing emerging strengths. By the end of the Fellowship, I would wish to see Modern Languages research in the UK as vibrant, visible, sustainable, well-supported in terms of funding opportunities and with a clear sense of direction for the future. The research project associated with the Fellowship will be in the area of language policy in the three devolved administrations. With the research assistant(s) on the project, I will explore language policy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on foreign language learning, indigenous languages and heritage languages, seeking to map the current situation, promote dialogue across the three countries, discuss problematic issues and crucially, establish successful strategies for growth in language learning. We will build in discussion of comparators in the area of minoritised languages, notably the Republic of Ireland and France. On the basis of the research findings, we will contribute to UK-wide discussion of language policy, joining up our thinking on the devolved administrations with research led by Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Cambridge: OWRI MEITS project) on policy in England. We will double-badge three language policy workshops with the OWRI MEITS project, hosting one policy workshop in a devolved region of the UK and taking the lead role in organising a major workshop in Westminster at the end of the Fellowship which will push for a UK-wide Languages Strategy at government level.