Professor Janice Carruthers
Queen’s University Belfast
The AHRC funds a diverse portfolio of Modern Languages projects across a vast range of languages and has recently invested £15 million in four flagship research programmes through its Open World Research Initiative.
Find out about the Leadership Fellowship Team, our research in the area of language policy, the OWRI projects and other innovative AHRC-funded research in Modern Languages
Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages
Funded and Doctoral Research in Modern Languages
News & Events
Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills
08/8/20
Delighted to see the launch today of Towards a National Languages Strategy: Education and Skills which contains a set of concrete recommendations to support the uptake of languages from primary school through to university. The AHRC is one of the five partners who have authored…
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01/1/20
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new Policy Briefing on Languages, Business, Trade and Innovation, co-authored by Wendy Ayres-Bennett (PI MEITS) and Janice Carruthers (AHRC Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages), and funded by the two AHRC major research projects. In it we…
ReadOfqual statistics – 2020 Provisional Entries for GCSE,…
12/12/20
On the 11th June 2020 Ofqual published statistics on provisional entries by subject and age group for summer 2020 exams in England. The main trends show an overall 2% in entries for GSCE and decline of 2% for A level. For GCSE entries “Modern foreign…
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