Ground-breaking languages project to move to the University of Birmingham

'Out of Our Minds' , a research group which looks into what speakers know about languages by using machine-learning techniques, will be moving to the University of Birmingham. Initially operating out of the University of Sheffield since 2017, 'Out of Our Minds' will be now based at the University of Birmingham from January 2019 with the entire research-engine of the team transferring to Birmingham. Professor Dagmar Divjak, who is the project lead, has been appointed jointly to the Departments of Modern Languages and English Language and Linguistics. She leads the research team together with Dr Petar Milin who will be a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology of Language and Language Learning in the Department of Modern Languages. Dr Srdan Medimorec, Dr Adnane Ez-zizi, Mr Maciej Borowski and Mr Christian Adam will also be joining Birmingham as the four project researchers, and a further three team members will be recruited in 2019. The current research software engineers (RSE) will remain at Sheffield as the University of Birmingham has its own in-house RSE team to support the development of new computational and statistical approaches, optimised for high-speed performance on large datasets. 'Out of Our Minds' was awarded a five year £1million Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust in December 2016.