Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr. Siân Alsop is Research Fellow in the Centre for Global Learning: Education and Attainment, focusing on equity and attainment in HE. She is currently developing a large corpus of texts to investigate the relationship between written feedback, attainment and ethnicity. Siân was previously a Lecturer in Academic Writing and has worked as Research Assistant on a number of projects relating to academic discourse, including the development of the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. She was awarded a PhD by Coventry University in 2015 for her work on the pragmatic annotation of the Engineering Lecture Corpus (ELC).
Research Interests
education, attainment, equity, corpus linguistics, academic writing, language of lectures, data visualisation, computational methods
Vision Statement
As a sector, we know that not all students have equal opportunity to succeed in their academic careers, which poses a problem for our students, for academic institutions, and for wider society. I work with large bodies of language data to understand attainment disparities among different groups of students. Through my research I want to contribute to our knowledge of the nature of these disparities, and to find effective ways to address them.
External positions
Assistant Professor (adjunct), University of Luxembourg
1 Sep 2016 → 1 Sep 2019Keywords
- PE English
- Corpus Linguistics
- Academic Writing
- LB2300 Higher Education
- Assessment
- Feedback
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Sian Alsop is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
- 41 Similar Profiles
Research Output 2009 2019
Understanding attainment disparity: A corpus-driven analysis of the language used in written feedback information to students of different backgrounds.
Alsop, S. & Gardner, S., 26 Jan 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Understanding Attainment Disparity: The Case for a Corpus-Driven Analysis of the Language used in Written Feedback Information to Students of Different Backgrounds
Alsop, S. & Gardner, S., 22 Sep 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Writing Analytics. (In-Press), p. (In-Press)Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
What can corpus analysis tell us about attainment disparity? A pilot analysis of written feedback information to students from two faculties.
Alsop, S. & Gardner, S., 23 Jul 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Stories and ‘story-likes’: How lecturers use real and hypothetical events to scaffold knowledge in different EMI contexts. 9th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies International Biennial Conference 2018. Corpus Linguistics: Languages, Communities, Mobility
Alsop, S. & Nesi, H., 15 Jun 2018.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Summary matters: How lecturers review and preview information in engineering lectures
Alsop, S., 5 Jul 2018.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Activities 2011 2019
BAWE 10 Years On
Hilary Nesi (Organising Committee), Sheena Gardner (Organising Committee), Benet Vincent (Organising Committee), Sian Alsop (Organising Committee)Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
1st International Conference on Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse
Sian Alsop (Speaker)Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Corpus Linguistics in the South Conference 2017
Sian Alsop (Speaker), Hilary Nesi (Speaker)Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
EMI Symposium 2017
Sian Alsop (Contributor)Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Biennial BALEAP Conference
Sian Alsop (Speaker)Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference