People

The ‘Interaction Variation Online’ project team includes:

• Academics who, for over 20 years, have been at the forefront of developing and examining corpora of spoken and multi-modal corpora and have published on inter-varietal differences between British and Irish spoken discourse, multi-modality, corpus construction, professional communication, and understanding people’s interactions with digital communicative technologies.
• Research assistants based at Cardiff and Limerick Universities
• Project consultants and academic advisors with expertise in corpus linguistics and multi-modal corpus pragmatics who are advising and supporting the project team
• Project stakeholder representatives and professional end-users who are co-developing the research, providing strategic assurance to the project and helping to maximise the relevance of the project activities and outputs

Academics

Project Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs)

Dawn Knight Cardiff University

Anne O’Keeffe Mary Immaculate College

Academic Collaborators (CIs)

Svenja Adolphs The University of Nottingham	Benjamin Cowan University College Dublin	Tania Fahey Palma University of Aberdeen
Fiona Farr University of Limerick	Sandrine Peraldi University College Dublin

Research Assistants (RAs)

Christopher Fitzgerald Mary Immaculate College

Justin McNamara Mary Immaculate College

Geraldine Mark Cardiff University

Project Consultants

Leigh Clark Bold Insight UK

Christoph Rühlemann Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Academic advisors

• Paula Buttery, University of Cambridge
• Yaoyao Chen, University of Macau
• Brian Clancy, Mary Immaculate College
• Leigh Clark, Swansea University
• Michael Handford, Cardiff University
• Phoebe Lin, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Michael McCarthy, The University of Nottingham
• Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
• Riki Thompson, University of Washington Tacoma

Project stakeholder representatives

• Helen O’Connor, Co-Director of Auctioneera Estate Agency
• Ben Knight, Director of Language Research at Cambridge University Press
• Dr Sandra Joyce, Director of Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
• Dan J Langford, Director of Langford Communications Limited
• Louise Donlon, Executive Director at Lime Tree Theatre | Belltable
• Tom Norland, Vice President of Petroleum Technology Company
• Huw Cook, Communications Officer at Public Health Wales
• Richard Tynen, Director of The Funding Centre
• Sandeep Mahal, Director of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature
• Alison Lyons, Director of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature