Introduction

ESRC LADO Network

The ESRC LADO Network is a network of researchers established through the UK Economic and Social Research Council grant no. RES-451-26-0911 to Prof. Peter L. Patrick of the University of Essex Dept. of Language & Linguistics and Human Rights Centre, in order to conduct a series of Research Seminars. The theme is "Language Analysis of Asylum Applicants: Foundations, Guidelines & Best Practice", and the meetings are to be held in 2011-12 at the University of Essex.

Participant Biography

Helen Walker

... holds a Masters in psychology and a Masters in English (literature and linguistics) from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She has been working as a linguist for LINGUA within the FOM (Federal Office for Migration/Switzerland) since 2008.

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