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At the 8th International Conference of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO), held at the University of Málaga on 2-4 March 2016, Carlos Prado-Alonso was appointed scientific convenor of the panel “Corpus-based studies of variation and linguistic change”, for a three-year term. Carlos, a member of the VLCG team now based at the University of Oviedo, succeeds María José López-Couso.

Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, a member of the VLCG team, has just obtained a position as ‘Ayudante Doctor’ at the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia.

Many congratulations to Paula, her PhD advisor María José López-Couso and the VLCG team!

It was recently announced that our colleague Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez, a member of the LVTC team,  has brilliantly passed the habilitation exam qualifying her for promotion to a position as Associate Professor  (‘Profesor Titular de Universidad’) of English Language and Linguistics.

Congratulations, Rosalía!

It was announced yesterday that Laura García-Castro (LVTC team) and Iván Tamaredo (VLCG team) have obtained competitive four-year FPI grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Laura’s PhD advisors are Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez (UIB); Iván’s PhD advisors are Teresa Fanego and J. Carlos Acuña-Fariña.

Congratulations!

At the 39th AEDEAN International Conference held on 11-13 November 2015 at the University of Deusto (Spain), Yolanda Fernandez-Pena, a member of the LVCT team,  received the prestigious Catalina Montes Award to the best presentation by a PhD student, in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics.

Congratulations!

It was recently announced that our colleague Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, a member of the LVTC team and currently Senior Research Fellow ‘Ramón y Cajal’ at the University of Vigo,  has brilliantly passed the habilitation exam (‘acreditación’) qualifying her for promotion to a position as Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics. Congratulations, Nuria!

Zeltia Blanco-Suárez, a member of the VLCG team, has just obtained a position as Lecturer (‘Ayudante’) at the University of Cantabria.

Many congratulations to Zeltia, to her PhD advisor María José López-Couso and the VLCG team!

30 September 2015: two new research grants from the Regional Government of Galicia (Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Promotion) were awarded today to ELC members, as follows:

— Grant no. GPC2015/004 (€70.000, for the period 2015-2017), to the SPERTUS team, led by Ignacio Palacios.

— Grant no. GRC2015/006 (€198.000, for the period 2015-2018), to the PCC team, led by our colleague at the Faculty of Psychology Isabel Fraga.

Congratulations!

At the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, hosted by the University of Granada on 17-19 September 2015, it was announced that Jorge Luis Bueno-Alonso, founding member of the group LVTC, will be the new editor of SELIM, the official journal of the Society. He succeeds Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo, Professor of English Philology at the University of Oviedo, and Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Associate Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Seville. SELIM‘s  first volume was published in 1991.

Congratulations!

Noelia Castro-Chao, a member of the VLCG team, has obtained a four-year postgraduate grant (ref. FPU 2014/03208) from the Spanish Ministry of Education, to prepare a PhD on the development of English impersonal constructions from a Construction Grammar perspective. Noelia’s PhD advisor is Teresa Fanego