Sian Alsop

Assistant Professor, Centre for Global Learning, Education and Attainment

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9639-0298

Emailab2358@coventry.ac.uk

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3 Citations
1 h-Index

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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 2019

Keywords

PE English
Corpus Linguistics
Academic Writing
LB2300 Higher Education
Assessment
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Research Output

3 Citations
1 h-Index
3 Chapter
3 Conference proceeding
3 Abstract
3 Article
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A corpus-driven investigation of connections between the language of written feedback information and ethnic attainment disparity in UK higher education

Alsop, S., Gardner, S. & Priestley, J., 6 Feb 2020, (Unpublished).

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Uses of corpus linguistics in education research: An adjustable lens

Alsop, S., King, V., Giaimo, G. & Xu, X., 20 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) Theory and Method in Higher Education Research. Tight, M. & Huisman, J. (eds.). Emerald, Vol. (In-press). p. (In-press)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter