We are pleased to report that Lancaster University’s Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) in the UK, of which CELESE Professor Laurence Anthony is an honorary research fellow, are to receive The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. Professor Anthony joined CASS as an honorary fellow in 2013 and continues to play an important role in the centre providing software for its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on corpus approaches in social science and working with various members of the centre to develop innovative corpus methods in areas such as social media and network analysis.
The award was announced at a reception at St James’s Palace, London on November 19, 2015 and will be presented by the Prince of Wales, together with the Duchess of Cornwall, at Buckingham Palace, London, UK on February 25, 2016.
CELESE is proud of Prof. Anthony’s achievement and we look forward to his continuing influence in the world of corpus linguistics.