The International Association for the research. The programme received key Mathematics Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy support from Maryland PhD students awarded her the Alice Tay Book Prize for in Colin’s team who spent a chunk of In 2023-24, Dan Ciubotaru has Excellence in Legal Theory for her book, the summer in Oxford, helping to train continued his research in representation Elucidating Law (Oxford University and mentor Oxford students. Another theory, partially funded by an EPSRC Press, 2022). The prize was awarded at research highlight was Colin’s inaugural New Horizons grant. He published the World Congress of the Philosophy of lecture (‘Now you say it, now you three papers: ‘A nonabelian Fourier Law in Seoul in July 2024. don’t’), held at Somerville in early June, transform for tempered unipotent which brought together themes — representations’, with A.-M. Aubert and and brought together people — from B. Romano, to appear in Compositio Linguistics throughout his career. In the past Math; ‘The wavefront sets of unipotent Louise Mycock has continued her year Colin held a couple of notable supercuspidal representations’, with L. activities with the international research-related roles. He is continuing Mason-Brown and E. Okada, twenty network Syntax Beyond the Canon, as editor of the journal Annual Review pages, to appear in Algebra and Number contributing a chapter titled '"Tis goodly of Linguistics, part of the prestigious Theory; and ‘Some unipotent Arthur language this, what would it mean?" Annual Reviews family of journals. In packets for reductive p-adic groups’, with Demonstrative ProTags in the History spring 2024 he completed his term L. Mason-Brown and E. Okada, to appear of English', written with Sharon Glaas as Chair of the Linguistics & Language in IMRN. He has also submitted four (University of Birmingham) to the edited Science section of the American more preprints (arXiv) for publication. volume Non-Canonical English Syntax: Association for the Advancement of Dan’s former postdoc and collaborator, Concepts, Methods, and Approaches. Science. Colin will be taking on the role Lucas Mason-Brown, has secured a This volume, containing network of department head in the Faculty of highly competitive University Research members’ research, is scheduled to Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics. Fellowship at Oxford and several tenure- be published by Cambridge University In this role, he is looking forward to track jobs in the UK and the US. He will Press in 2025. The research carried supporting the department’s move start as an assistant professor at UT out in collaboration with UNIQ+ interns into the new Schwarzman Centre for Austin in July 2024. One of Dan’s DPhil Dylan Ryder and Dan Street in 2023 the Humanities, right next door to students graduated in August 2023 has been written up. Louise’s paper, Somerville, which will create many new and he is now a postdoc in Hong Kong. co-authored with Sharon Glaas, titled opportunities for research. In October, Dan is currently supervising three DPhil ‘The Demonstrative ProTag Construction Colin gave three talks in Korea, including students, including one jointly with a in Social Interaction: a Historical as a keynote speaker at the Applied colleague at University of Padova. He has Perspective’ is currently under review. Linguistics Association of Korea. In supervised four master’s dissertations Louise also gave a presentation of her January he and his students gave a talk this year, and one of these students research on ‘meaningless’ pronouns to at the Linguistic Society of America will start a funded PhD in Germany. school students who attended a training in New York City about their research Dan has reported on his research session for the UK Linguistics Olympiad carried out on the museum floor at results at conferences in Hong Kong, this year. Over the summer she is Planet Word Museum in Washington DC. Manchester, Bath, Cluj-Napoca, and York. working on her monograph on ‘wh’- They also spoke about another arm of Unfortunately, he is at the point in his questions and investigating discourse this research at the LingO conference career where his administrative burden markers and their development in in Oxford in June. In May, Colin was seems to be increasing exponentially, spoken and written language further. involved in four presentations at the so he can only hope that he’ll be able to She has also participated in the College Human Sentence Processing Conference continue his research programme at the Open Days. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, same rate in the near future. This was an important transitional USA. A highlight of this was his talk Renaud Lambiotte often jokes that his year for Colin Phillips, as he shifted ‘Janet Dean’s Path to Psycholinguistics’, current research interests are those of from directing a research centre that based around findings in Somerville his DPhil students. The last academic spans 15 departments within one College’s archives about alumna Janet year was difficult in many ways, but also university, to building a research team Dean Fodor, one of the world’s leading very successful for his students, hence that spans two continents. It has psycholinguists, and a mentor of his, indirectly for him. At the end of last worked well so far, with increasing who passed away in late 2023. In March year, John Pougué-Biyong successfully cross-talk and collaboration between he gave a talk at an Oxford workshop defended his DPhil, and he is now Head the nodes in Oxford and Maryland. One about the link between linguistics and of Data at Kamoa, a startup in the field highlight of this is the new summer computer science, whilst last November, of microcredit in Africa, in a wonderful research internship programme that in the ‘now for something completely example of using data science for the Colin started in summer 2024, with different’ department, Colin gave a talk common good. A couple of months support and encouragement from called ‘Lessons from two very different ago, Renaud’s student Shazia’Ayn Babul Claire Cockcroft of the Somerville initiatives’ at an interdisciplinary event received the Bertalanffy Doctoral Skills Hub. The programme serves in Maryland on the broad theme of Student Award for her recent work on the hunger for research experiences ‘belonging’; this talk was a synthesis the (positive) impact of Low Traffic from Oxford undergraduates, allowing of lessons learned from his community Neighbourhoods on urban mobility. students from different courses and building efforts in academia and in There were also plenty of interesting, stages to collaborate on psycholinguistic community health. stimulating discussions on topics as 15