Lorna Carson

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About Lorna Carson

Lorna Carson is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. She is Co-PI of the LIFELANGS Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities, a new four-year cross-border project funded by the HEA’s North South Research Programme. Working alongside Co-PI Dr Aisling O’Boyle from Queen’s University Belfast, LIFELANGS is a new major centre of excellence that will develop evidence-based research on languages and identities in Ireland north and south. Former Head of School and founding Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, she is presently Director of the university’s Centre for English Language Learning and Teaching (CELLT). Professor Carson's research on language learning addresses issues located at the interface between individual and societal multilingualism, with particular attention to second language learning, language policy, pedagogy and assessment. Her recent work focuses on urban contexts, focusing on features such as diversity and mobility. She holds a B.A.(Mod.), M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.A. from the College of Europe, Bruges. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Her publications include "The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change", co-edited with Lid King (2016, Multilingual Matters);"Language Learner Autonomy: Policy, Curriculum, Classroom", co-edited with Breffni O'Rourke (2010, Peter Lang), and "Multilingualism in Europe: A Case Study"(2003, 2005, Peter Lang). She is a past President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL). Her teaching and postgraduate supervision include second language curricula, language assessment and multilingualism.