Project team
In alphabetical order
Siân Alsop (2005 - 2007)
Siân assisted in recording interviews, in the collection of assignments (making contact with students, supervising submissions, and paying contributors), and in corpus preparation (recording submission details and storing assignments). Siân is studying for a PhD at Coventry University (supervised by Hilary Nesi).
Professor Douglas Biber (2004 - 2007)
Douglas Biber is a Regents' Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. He acted as consultant to the project and conducted the multidimensional analysis.
Dr Mary Deane (2006 - 2007)
Mary Deane helped disseminate information about the project and corpus collection practices. She is now a consultant in the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.
Dr Signe Ebeling (2004 - 2006)
Signe assisted in recording interviews and collecting of assignments at Oxford Brookes. She also assisted Paul Wickens in corpus preparation (recording submission details and storing assignments). Signe is now Associate Professor of English language in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.
Dr Richard Forsyth (2004 - 2005)
Richard assisted in the co-ordination of interviews and assignment collection, and the recording and management of interview and assignment data. He also took day-to-day responsibility for the corpus.
Dr Lisa Ganobcsik Williams (2006 - 2007)
Lisa is co-ordinator of the Centre for Academic Writing at Coventry University, and has helped disseminate information about the project and corpus collection practices.
Dr Sheena Gardner (2004 - 2007)
Sheena conducted detailed analysis of macrogenres in the corpus and is carrying out ongoing research in this area. She also supervised Laura Powell, recipient of a Warwick University Undergraduate Research Scholarship in 2006 to interview undergraduate students in connection with the project. Sheena is now Head of the Department of English and Languages at Coventry University.
Penny Gilchrist (2006 - 2007)
Penny Gilchrist is the administrator for the Centre for Academic Writing. She co-ordinated the collection of assignments at Coventry.
Alois Heuboeck (2004 - 2007)
Alois assisted Paul Thompson in the collection of assignments and corpus preparation. He also interviewed academic staff at Reading University, and was particularly involved in the encoding of the corpus. Alois is now a Language Engineer at Oxford University Press.
Dawn Hindle (2004 - 2005)
Dawn assisted in recording interviews, in the collection of assignments (making contact with students, supervising submissions, and paying contributors), and in corpus preparation (recording submission details and storing assignments).
Dr Jasper Holmes (2005 - 2007)
Jasper was responsible for documentation, tagging, and wider theoretical issues, and participated in the analysis of the corpus. He also took day-to-day responsibility for the corpus and for managing collection, tagging and research. Jasper is now a Senior Researcher at Ricability.
Dr Maria Leedham (2004 - 2006)
Maria assisted in recording interviews and collecting assignments at Oxford Brookes University. She also assisted Paul Wickens in corpus preparation (recording submission details and storing assignments). Maria is now a Lecturer in English Language Studies/Applied Linguistics at the Open University, and is using BAWE data to investigate the writing of L1 Mandarin and L1 English students (supervised by Ann Hewings, Barbara Mayor and Sarah North).
Professor Hilary Nesi (2004 - 2007)
Hilary managed the project, and co-ordinated assignment collection, academic staff interviews and text analysis. She joined Coventry University as a Professor in English Language in October 2007.
Dr Paul Thompson (2004 - 2007)
Paul managed the project at Reading University. He organised academic interviews at Reading; co-ordinated the development of the mark up scheme and supervised the presentation of the corpus. Paul is now the Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at Birmingham University.
Dr Paul Wickens (2004 - 2007)
Paul is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Oxford Brookes University. He managed the project at Oxford Brookes and conducted detailed analysis of macrogenres in the corpus .