Work on our project will be presented at two conferences:
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“Down to a (t): Exploring the complex conditioning effects on t-glottaling across the life-span”. Paper presented in the workshop Trend and panel studies: What can they really tell us about language change? Organised at ICLaVE9, University of Malaga, 6.-9. June 2017.
 
“Exploring new methods for investigating online processing of morphosyntactic and phonetic variability” Paper presented in the workshop 'Implicitness and experimental methods in language variation research' organised at Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tokyo. 7.-11. August 2017.

Our team has been invited to speak at the CLaRE workshop (http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/clare/HOME) on Encounters in Language and Aging Research in Berlin. 
We will speak about "The effect of the socioeconomic trajectory on longitudinal life-span change"

Our paper "Levelling across the life-span?: Tracing the face vowel in panel data from the North East of England" is now available on the Journal of Sociolinguistics webpage. 10.1111/josl.12227.  

Beat Siebenhaar and I are excited to announce that the edited volume containing selected papers from ICLaVE8 has been accepted to appear with Benjamins! There will be 15 papers on language variation and change in European languages plus an introduction penned by Beat and myself.  We can't wait to see it in print. 

Karen Corrigan and Adam Mearns' edited book Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora, Volume 3: Corpora for Public Engagement (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) is out!
We have a chapter on the DECTE corpus in there, " The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English and The Talk of the Toon: Issues in Preservation and Public Engagement".

I rewrote the consolidator grant application into an application to the German Research Foundation (DFG). The 5-year project would trace language change across the whole adult life-span. I will find out whether my application as successful in April / May. Fingers crossed!!

My work on life span change has been featured in two invited talks.
The University of Duisburg-Essen invited me to speak to them about "Examining the role of the individual in ongoing longitudinal language change" on 21st June.
At the University of Siegen I talked about "Life-span change in the FACE vowel" on 14th July.
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What a great workshop! Check out the programme here:  http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/new7/

Anne Krause and I gave a paper entitled "Changes across the life-span in the Tyneside FACE vowel", which details our first foray into changes across the lifespan in the area of phonology.
They liked it :)

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as we did last year, Adam Mearns and I participated in the organisation of the A-level conference at Newcastle University. The programme was slightly different this year, relying on old trusted speakers as well a few new voices on literary topics. Adam and I ran two interactive sessions with both AS and A2 level students, exploring their perceptions of ongoing language change. We used the clicker software and recorded their reactions, which we will hopefully be able to use in our ongoing work with Erez Levon on  the effect of linguistic salience on language change. ​

On 6th February, Leipzig University hosted the 1st conference on Language Change across the Lifespan (LCL). The one-day conference, which was organised by students at Leipzig University, focused on the little-known life-stage after university.