Sarah Kirk-Browne

Profile

Project Title: “The REDD corpus: 100 years of continuity and change in spoken British English”. A LISS-DTP CASE project in partnership with the British Library. Designing and creating a diachronic corpus of recordings from the British Library’s Sound Archive, for sociolinguistic research. Exploring grammatical and lexical variation across the 20^th century in different locations around England.

Supervisors: Dr Devyani Sharma, Dr Sophie Holmes-Elliott, Jonnie Robinson (British Library).

Previous qualifications:

MRes, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London (2019)

MA, Linguistics, University of Brighton (2017)

British Council diploma, TESOL (2013)

NCTJ diploma, Print Journalism (2010)

MSc, Information Management, Queen Margaret University (2004)

MA, Politics, University of Edinburgh (2003)

Research

Research Interests:

Sociolinguistics,

Dialectology,

Corpus linguistics.

Publications

Kirk-Browne, S., 2025. The Regional English Dialects Diachronic (REDD) corpus project: Using archives for dialectology research. In Fitzgerald, C. ed., Linguistics and Oral History: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Kirk-Browne, S., 2021. An analysis of climate change discourses in the UK parliament (2006-2018). Language & Ecology, 45, pp.111-113.