The Research Centre for Languages and Cultures conducts high quality and high impact research and consultancy, with an emphasis on the application of knowledge in collaboration with government, industry, commerce, the professions and community groups.

RCLC's research focuses on the role of languages and cultures in social and professional life in the key areas of:

• languages and cultures in education
• inguistic diversity in international education
• language and culture in the professions
• social and political contexts of languages and cultures
• language structures and use

The researchers at the RCLC have specific expertise in:

RCLC's researchers have diverse backgrounds, with training in general and theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, educational linguistics, languages education at all levels, and more broadly in education.