LARG Advisory Panel

Boraana Oromo GIS map LARG is advised by a distinguished panel of experts with collective experience of linguistic, legal, human rights and bureaucratic dimensions of LADO and asylum. Members are based in the UK, Europe, North America & Australasia.

Members include linguistic experts with first-hand experience in LADO and related areas such as forensic linguistics, legal experts in migration and asylum law, human rights practitioners, representatives of asylum/refugee NGOs, senior government staff in LADO bureaux, academics of other disciplines with experience in asylum contexts, and LADO researchers from human rights, linguistics or other viewpoints.

Advisory Panel members serve a 3-year term. Besides their primary role - consulting with Convenors over publications, events, research and membership matters - they participate in discussion, attend expert meetings, and make their research available to the Group. The links in the left column of the table below contain profiles for all Panel members and Convenors.

Convenors	Affiliation	Expertise
Prof Peter L Patrick, PhD	University of Essex	Sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, Creoles, LADO
Prof Monika Schmid, PhD	Universities of Essex & Groningen	Bilingual development, language attrition, language acquisition
Dr Karin M Zwaan, PhD	Radboud University Nijmegen	European & international migration and refugee law

Panel Members	Affiliation	Expertise
Dr Enam Al-Wer, PhD	University of Essex	Sociolinguistics, Arabic dialectology, LADO
Eric Baltisberger	Swiss Federal Office for Migration	Head of Language Services (incl. LADO bureau)
Prof Jan Blommaert, PhD	University of Tilburg	Discourse analysis, African linguistics, ethnography
Dr Diana Eades, PhD	University of New England	Sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics
Dr Helen Fraser, PhD	Independent Researcher	Phonetics, Forensic transcription, L2 pronunciation
Prof Geoff Gilbert, PhD, LLM	University of Essex	International human rights, migration/asylum law
Dr Katrijn Maryns, PhD	University of Gent	Forensic linguistics, discourse analysis
Prof Tim McNamara, PhD	University of Melbourne	Applied linguistics, language assessment, LADO
Prof Pieter Muysken, PhD	Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen	Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language contact
Dr Fallou Ngom, PhD	Boston University	French & African linguistics, LADO
Mr Nick Oakeshott, LLM, MA	Head of Law, Asylum Aid	International human rights, migration/asylum law
Prof John Packer, LLM	University of Essex	Economic, social, cultural & minority rights
Prof Renos Papadopoulos, PhD	University of Essex	Analytical psychology, trauma, migration, refugees
Prof John Victor Singler, PhD	New York University	Sociolinguistics, African linguistics, Creoles, LADO
Prof Lawrence Solan, PhD, JD	Brooklyn Law School	Language & law, linguistics & legal argumentation
Dr Jan ten Thije, PhD	Utrecht Institute for Linguistics	Intercultural communication, multilingualism
Dr Maaike Verrips, PhD	De Taalstudio, Amsterdam	Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, LADO