- I designed a new course, LELA 60112 "Corpus Linguistics" for MSc students, with Python, R and lots of linguistics. That took quite a lot of my time.
- I successfully applied for a student intern. Manoj Manikandan, BSc student in Computer Science at the University of Manchester, worked on a mapping interface for my spokencorpus.org project. Given that he only had 1 week for his work, the result is excellent! Check out the dialect mapping feature here.
- The Linguistics and English Language department enjoyed a Research-Away day on 26 June 2025. All staff members presented some of their work. I talked about my interest in phrasal verbs. I have since finished the paper and submitted it to a journal for review. Let's hope the reviewers like it.
- My handbook article on measuring change in corpora has come out online. It'll be my only publication for 2025 (better than nothing ...) so I'm very happy about it. It'll be available in print form as part of International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics in 2026.
- I supervised 4 MA dissertations over the summer. They covered the topics: argument structure change with the verb loathe, ellipsis in late medieval prose romances, register analysis of trauma narratives, and address pronouns in Nicholas Udall - an understudied early English dramatist.

- My research is about Old English and their curious verb-final structure in sentences introduced with and. I use this as an example to argue that syntactic changes can interact in a systematic way. I hope I can finish the project within the time I have.
- I have the pleasure of hosting a visiting PhD student, Anneli Donzé. She'll be here for the next 3 months and is enriching our department already.