The purpose of the Centre for Corpus Research is to further the use of text and corpus analysis in learning, teaching, and research.
It provides resources, facilities, and technical and scientific advice to members of staff, students, and visitors on a variety of issues concerning the study of textual data.
The Heart of the centre consists of a computer suite which provides various computer software and language resources to all staff and research students within the School. The centre also offers various workshops and seminars open to people outside the University of Birmingham.
Apart from the computing facilities, we also offer advice to staff and research students who would like to know more about corpus research in general or how to use a specific resource or tool. Throughout the year, we run short courses, introductory sessions and surgery sessions. For more information about the next available course, please see Courses.
Our short courses, AHRC Training Days and conference are of course open also for people outside of Birmingham.
On 1 September 2009, Paul Thompson was appointed to the role of Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. The post became vacant earlier this year when the previous Director, Pernilla Danielsson, moved to the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Centre for Corpus Research is part of the School of English, Drama, and American & Canadian Studies.
