Rebecca Clift

Rebecca Clift, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (UK).

Since 2007 – Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex.
2016-20 – Visiting Research Fellow, School of English, Music and Humanities, University of Huddersfield.

Research training

I was awarded a place on the highly competitive and intensive six-week Practicum in Conversation Analysis, taught by Professors Emanuel A. Schegloff, John Heritage, Gene Lerner and Don Zimmerman, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, during the Linguistics Institute, 2001.
I undertook further research training in Conversation Analysis as a Visiting Research Fellow at UCLA in 2002.

Previous departmental administrative roles

Assistant Director of Research Students (2017-2020)
Director of Postgraduate Education (2012-2017)
Departmental Steering Group (2012-2017)
Academic Offences officer, Department of Language and Linguistics (2015-2016)
Member, Undergraduate Assessment Committee (from 2010-2015)
Member, Research Strategy Group (from 2007-2012)
Co-ordinator, Postgraduate Taught Courses (from January 2003-2007)
Member, Departmental Advising Team (from 1997 onwards)
Member, Postgraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee (1996-2002; 2012 onwards)
Member, appointments committee for academic posts in Syntax (2017), French (2017), Phonology (2017), Sociolinguistics (2017), Applied Linguistics (2003), Second Language Acquisition (2003) and English Linguistics (1999); and for administrative positions (2007, 2013, 2014)
Member, Departmental Equipment Committee (1999-2002)
Member, Departmental IT Strategy Committee (1997-1998)

Directorship of degree courses

Director, BA English Language and Linguistics (from 2017)
Director, BA Linguistics (from 2017-2019)
Director, MA English Language and Linguistics (from 2016-2019)
Director, BA English Language and Literature (from 2014-2017)
Director, MA English Language and Literature (2014-2015)
Director, MA in Sociolinguistics (1997-8, 2001-2 Autumn/Summer, 2002-4)
Co-director, MA in Sociolinguistics (1996-7, 1998-9)

Professional affiliations