About our seminar series

We’re excited to announce the newly established LCD-PSYC in collaboration with LuCiD seminar series (2025/26). The seminars will be monthly at the University of Manchester and with online attendance available to ensure accessibility for all. See details below:

• 7 Oct 2025 – Prof. Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield) “The Acceptability and Efficacy of Helping Parents to Support Early Child Language: Evaluating the BBC Tiny Happy People text messaging service”
• 4 Nov 2025 – Dr. Sophie Booton (University of Oxford): “Digital technology and young children: evaluating educational apps and asking what matters for families, children and educators”
• 2 Dec 2025 – (CANCELLED)
• 6 Jan 2026 – Dr. Alicia Forsberg (University of Sheffield): “The development of working memory, meta-cognition, and learning”
• 3 Feb 2026 – Dr. Colin Bannard (University of Manchester): “Disentangling meaning and syntax in explaining age of acquisition: an exploration of property concept words in the WordBank database”
• 3 March 2026 – Prof. Hannes Rakoczy (University of Göttingen): “Sociality and agency in early modal reasoning”
• 7 April 2026 – Dr Jo Saul (University College London): “Cluster analysis of minimally verbal school-age children: evidence of discrepant profiles”
• 5 May 2026 – Prof Michelle McManus (University of Manchester)
• 2 June 2026 – Dr. Calum Hartley (University of Lancaster)
• 07 July 2026 – Prof Silke Brandt (Lancaster University)

Thank you to our speakers and attendees so far for your valuable contributions. Recordings of past talks are available online for anyone who missed them, and we look forward to many more insightful sessions ahead!

Our Seminar Series invites language experts from across the world, as well as leading researchers from the Centre, to share their research. Seminars take place monthly during term time and cover a range of topics linked to language acquisition. They are open to anyone wishing to attend. Contact us to be added to the mailing list.

Following each seminar, there is typically an informal lunch where attendees can engage in discussions and exchange ideas with the speaker. 

Recordings

View seminar recordings from 2025 on our YouTube channel.

View all previous seminar recordings on our YouTube channel.

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