Multilingual Manchester

Experts from The University of Manchester have called for better language provisions to help non-English speakers into the workplace, after their research found that language proficiency is the most common barrier to employment for newcomers to the city. An estimated...

Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester is undergoing a £13 million transformation, to become the country’s most inclusive, caring and imaginative museum. The development, hello future, is being launched on 2 October, when work will begin to create new...

Visit our Reports archive to read the latest MLM student reports! The reports focus on various aspects of Manchester's multilingualism, including: -  a study on the effect of Brexit debates on language learning choices, in which participants suggested that Brexit...

Last month we met with officials at the Office for National Statistics to make suggestions for improvement of the question on languages ahead of the 2021 Census. But the officials are reluctant to act, and it seems that to get results, researchers will have to engage...

Abstracts are invited for an event on 'University Public Engagement with Urban Multilingualism', which will take place on 20-22 February 2019 at the University of Manchester. The three-day event will offer an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and experience among...

Am 12 Juni 2018 hielten Leonie Gaiser und Yaron Matras einen Vortrag über die ‘Sprachlandschaften’ (Sprache im öffentlichen Raum) von Manchester im Rahmen einer Vorlesung über Mehrsprachigkeit unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos an der Universität...

Increasing numbers of researchers are engaging in studies involving complex contexts of ‘superdiversity’ and participants who have a broad range of linguistic repertoires and communication needs. Yet there are often limited opportunities for scholars to exchange...

Students and citizens in Saint Petersburg will now have access to a Russian version of LinguaSnapp - The University of Manchester’s mobile app for documenting language landscapes. The app allows users to collect and upload images of signs in different languages to a...

On 21-22 May 2018, Multilingual Manchester will host a two-day workshop on 'Multilingual Landscapes: Planning, Policy, and Contact Linguistic Perspectives'. The workshop programme is available to view here. Participation in the workshop is by invitation. If you are...

The Multilingual Communities strand of the AHRC-OWRI consortium ‘Cross-language Dynamics: Re-shaping community’ is offering two grants at a value of up to £11,500 each (at 80%, in line with AHRC funding rules) for projects that are devoted to university engagement...