Adam Schembri

Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham

Dr. Adam Schembri is based in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He completed a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Sydney in 2002. Adam has worked at a number of institutions in both Australia and the UK, including at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre at University College London during 2006-2010, where he initiated the British Sign Language Corpus Project (www.bslcorpusproject.org). His research and teaching experience has encompassed a wide range of areas in sign language linguistics and gesture studies, including work on aspects of the vocabulary and grammar of Australian Sign Language and British Sign Language. He is the co-author (with Trevor Johnston) of "Australian Sign Language (Auslan): An introduction to sign language linguistics", and (with Ceil Lucas) "Sociolinguistics and Deaf communities", both published by Cambridge University Press.

Experience

2016–present

Reader, University of Birmingham
2011–2015

Associate professor, La Trobe University
2006–2010

Senior Research Fellow, University College London, UK
2005–2006

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Macquarie University
2003–2005

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Newcastle
2000–2002

Lecturer, University of Bristol, UK

Education

2002

University of Sydney, PhD/Linguistics
1996

Sydney Institute of TAFE, Diploma in Interpreting (Auslan/English)
1993

University of Sydney, Master of Letters (Linguistics)
1989

University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts

Research Areas

Linguistics (2004)
Applied Linguistics And Educational Linguistics (200401)
Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) (200405)
Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) (200406)
Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) (200408)
Linguistics Not Elsewhere Classified (200499)
Lexicography (200407)