Professor Thora Tenbrink

Professor in Linguistics

t.tenbrink@bangor.ac.uk

+44 1248 382263

Professor Thora Tenbrink

I am Professor of Linguistics and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. My main focus is on discourse analysis, used specifically to understand how people think. I am author of 鈥淐ognitive Discourse Analysis:听 An Introduction鈥 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and "Space, Time, and the Use of Language" (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), co-editor of three books on linguistic representation and dialogue, and have published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles in areas of language, cognition and communication. In recent years my focus has moved from space (understanding spatial locations and relationships) to place (meaningful relationships to spaces), especially in relation to climate change.

I have always enjoyed interdisciplinary and international collaboration, within areas of cognitive or social science and beyond. Currently I am involved in听, an international network of collaborative research led by Dublin, and in various Wales-wide endeavours and projects that address people's views on, and engagement with, environmental concerns.听At Bangor, I founded and am now Director of the (PloCC), an extensive interdisciplinary network of researchers addressing place-based aspects of climate change threats, mitigations and engagement. I am also co-leading the newly established Wales-wide WISERD network (PATCCh).

Dean of Research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Email: t.tenbrink@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 38 2263

Location:

Room 306, 39 College Road,

Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK

  • DPhil: Localising objects and events: Discoursal applicability conditions for spatiotemporal expressions in English and German
    Bremen University, 2005

I have taught modules across many areas of Linguistics as well as some in Cognitive Science.听

Within Linguistics, my main current teaching focus is related to methodology, in particular concerning the use of language but also spanning other fields. This comprises Functions of Discourse (which introduces discourse analysis on the basis of Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar), Cognitive Discourse Analysis, Research Methods in Linguistics, and Language and Communication. My teaching covers听fundamental areas in Linguistics (e.g., in Foundations of Linguistics) but also draws on wider insights from Cognitive Science.

I am happy to supervise postgraduate projects in all of the areas mentioned above, in particular those that employ discourse analysis and/or address topics in areas of cognitive linguistics, communication, functional grammar, and more - just get in touch to explore!

I'm interested in how we use language, and what this tells us about our thoughts (concepts and thought processes). For this purpose I developed an empirical method,听Cognitive Discourse Analysis听(CODA: , and 2020, Cambridge University Press). Typically this means giving speakers a particular task to do in which they express their thoughts in some way, and record what they say in response. The linguistic data are then analysed by looking in detail at how language is used to express thoughts. Insights can be related to previous research on how language relates to thought - for example from theoretical cognitive linguistics or other related fields.

Much of my research has focused on how we understand and talk about our spatial environments, for instance when we try to find our way to a destination, or explain how to find an office in a complex building. More recently my focus has turned to notions of place (rather than space): how do we express in language what places mean to us, how do we relate to them, and in what ways might this be affected by the effects of (or mitigations against) climate change? 听

For more information, please consult my website,听.听

I welcome enquiries from students interested in pursuing a PhD related to cognitive discourse analysis and communication.

2025

  • E-pub ahead of print
    Morris-Webb, E. S., Austin, M., Cousens, C., Kent, N., Gosney, K. & Tenbrink, T., 9 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ocean and Society. 2, 9793.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • E-pub ahead of print
    Jones, L., Anderson, S., L忙ss酶e, J., Banzhaf, E., Jensen, A., Tubadji, A., Hutchins, M., Yang, J., Taylor, T., Wheeler, B., Fletcher, D., Tenbrink, T., Wilcox-Jones, L., Iversen, S., Sang, 脜., Lin, T., Xu, Y., Lu, L., Levin, G. & Zandersen, M., 29 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Sustainability. 17, 7, 3043.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Santos, P., Cabalar, P., Falomir, Z. & Tenbrink, T., 2025, In: Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 25, 1, p. 1-14
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Special issue 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Cousens, C., Kent, N., Gosney, K., Morris-Webb, L., Tenbrink, T. & Austin, M., 7 Apr 2025, 39 p.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Other report

2024

  • Published
    Parry, S., Hanna, S., Tenbrink, T. (Contributor), Roberts, H. (Contributor) & Young, E. (Contributor), 10 Jun 2024
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Other report
  • Published
    Cotton, I., McWherter, B., Tenbrink, T. & Sherren, K., Jun 2024, In: Journal of Environmental Psychology. 96, 102339.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Accepted/In press
    Gamarra Burga, E., Tenbrink, T. & Mills, D., 8 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) Spatial Cognition Conference Proceedings 2024. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Conference contribution 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Wadley, P., Tenbrink, T. & Wallington, A., 24 Jan 2024, In: Cognitive Linguistics. 35, 1, 33 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Unpublished
    Owen, D. W., Roberts, S., Jones, L., Fletcher, D., Fitch, A. & Tenbrink, T., 2024, (Unpublished).
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper 鈥 peer-review

2023

  • Published
    Amphaeris, J., Blumstein, D., Shannon, G., Tenbrink, T. & Kershenbaum, A., 20 Jun 2023, In: Biological Reviews. 98, 6, p. 1887-1909 23 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Auge, A., Tenbrink, T., Spear, M. & Abrams, N., Oct 2023, In: Frontiers in Communication. 8, 15 p., 1256349.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Accepted/In press
    Tenbrink, T., 5 Apr 2023, (Accepted/In press) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Cognitive Linguistics. Wen, X. & Sinha, C. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary 鈥 peer-review
  • Unpublished
    Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 15 Dec 2023, (Unpublished) 52 p.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Other report
  • Published
    Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 11 Sept 2023.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Poster
  • Published
    Roberts, S., Tenbrink, T. & Peisley, G., 2023, 91精品黑料吃瓜. 35 p.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Other report
  • Published
    Hanna, S. & Tenbrink, T., 29 Mar 2023, The Conversation.
    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication 鈥 Article
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Willcock, S., 6 Sept 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 9, e0290354.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Gamarra Burga, E. & Tenbrink, T., 22 Jun 2023.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Poster 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 11 Oct 2023, Handbook of Cognitive Semantics. Li, T. (ed.). Brill, p. 3-23 (Brill's Handbooks in Linguistics; vol. 4/3).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter 鈥 peer-review

2022

  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 2 Jun 2022, The Sailing Mind. Casati, R. (ed.). Springer, p. 73-88 16 p. (Studies in Brain and Mind; vol. 19).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Lamb, D. A. & Tenbrink, T., 2022, In: Language, Context and Text. 4, 2, p. 227-258
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 2022, Gwerddon Fach.
    Research output: Other contribution
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Williams, A. J., 20 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Spatial Information Science. 24, p. 87-114 28 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 20 Jan 2022, In: Linguistics Vanguard. 8, S1, p. 151-159
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Amphaeris, J., Shannon, G. & Tenbrink, T., Jun 2022, In: Lingua. 272, 103332.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Stock, K. (Editor), Jones, C. (Editor) & Tenbrink, T. (Editor), Oct 2022, In: Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 22, 3-4
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Special issue 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Stock, K., Jones, C. & Tenbrink, T., 2 Oct 2022, In: Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 22, 3-4, p. 185-224
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Review article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Foltz, A., Mart铆n-Gasc贸n, B., Silva Marytsch, F. P., Olloqui Redondo, J. & Tenbrink, T., Dec 2022, In: Language and Cognition. 14, 4, p. 645-671
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2021

  • Published
    Amphaeris, J., Shannon, G. & Tenbrink, T., Jul 2021.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Lawrence, K., Jan 2021, In: JoSTrans: Journal of Specialised Translation. 35, p. 186-208
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2020

  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 31 Jan 2020, Cambridge University Press. 275 p.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Book 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Taylor, H., Brunye, T. T., Gagnon, S. & Gardony, A. L., May 2020, In: Cognitive Processing. 21, 2, p. 287-302
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Algamde, A. & Tenbrink, T., 24 Nov 2020, In: Open Linguistics. 6, 1, p. 584鈥600
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Almehmadi, W., Tenbrink, T. & Sanoudaki, E., 20 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. 63, 7, p. 2308-2321
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Jun 2020, In: Journal of Spatial Information Science. 20, p. 57-63
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2019

  • Published
    Olloqui-Redondo, J., Tenbrink, T. & Foltz, A., 21 Jun 2019, In: Language and Cognition. 11, 2 (Special Issue on Iconicity), p. 256-284
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Conroy Dalton, R. & Williams, A. J., Sept 2019, COSIT 2019 : 14th Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Timpf, S., Schlieder, C., Kattenbeck, M., Ludwig, B. & Stewart, K. (eds.). Dagstuhl Publishing, p. 17:1-17:14
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Conference contribution 鈥 peer-review

2018

  • Published
    Coventry, K. R., Andonova, E., Tenbrink, T., Gudde, H. & Engelhardt, P., 13 Aug 2018, In: Frontiers in Psychology: Cognition. 9, 1287.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Galati, A., Panagiotou, E., Tenbrink, T. & Avraamides, M. N., Aug 2018, In: Discourse Processes. 55, 8, p. 643-665
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Egorova, E., Tenbrink, T. & Purves, R. S., 2018, In: Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 18, 4, p. 259-284
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 27 Apr 2018, Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography. Montello, D. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Schole, G., Tenbrink, T., Andonova, E. & Coventry, K. R., 2018, Spatial Cognition XI : 11th International Conference, Spatial Cognition 2018, T眉bingen, Germany, September 5-8, 2018, Proceedings. Creem-Regehr, S., Sch枚ning, J. & Klippel, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 92-106 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11034).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Conference contribution 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Cialone, C., Tenbrink, T. & Spiers, H., Mar 2018, In: Cognitive Science. 42, 2, p. 524-553
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2017

  • Published
    Gunzelmann, G. (Editor), Howes, A. (Editor), Tenbrink, T. (Editor) & Davelaar, E. (Editor), Aug 2017. 3999 p.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Other 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Andonova, E., Schole, G. & Coventry, K. R., 1 Jun 2017, In: Language and Speech. 60, 2, p. 318-329
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Jun 2017, The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Dancygier, B. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 669-683 (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Davies, C. & Tenbrink, T., Oct 2017, Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). Springer, p. 217-225 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography).
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Conference contribution 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Dylla, F., 31 Aug 2017, In: Journal of Spatial Information Science. 15, p. 3-33
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Aug 2017, In: KI - K眉nstliche Intelligenz. 31, 3, p. 257-264
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Short survey 鈥 peer-review

2016

  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Maas, A., 29 Jan 2016, In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.. 58, 4, p. 346 - 366
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 26 Dec 2016, Encyclopedia of GIS. Shekbar, S., Xiong, H. & Zhou, X. (eds.). 2 ed. Springer
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Salwiczek, L., 1 May 2016, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42, 5, p. 683-705
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Bergmann, E., Hertzberg, C. & Gondorf, C., 20 Jan 2016, In: Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 16, 3, p. 192-219
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2015

  • Published
    Thomas, A., Chen, C., Gordon, L. & Tenbrink, T., 3 Aug 2015, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Mar 2015, In: Language and Cognition. 7, 1, p. 98-137
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. & Taylor, H. A., 7 Jul 2015, In: Journal of Problem Solving. 8, 1
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Egorova, E., Tenbrink, T. & Purves, R. S., 12 Oct 2015.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper

2014

  • Published
    Mast, V., Wolter, D., Klippel, A., Wallgrun, J. O., Tenbrink, T., Freksa, C. (Editor), Nebel, B. (Editor), Hegarty, M. (Editor) & Barkowsky, T. (Editor), 15 Sept 2014, Spatial Cognition IX: Lecturers Notes in Computer Science. 2014 ed. Springer, p. 92-107
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Hoelscher, C., Tsigaridi, D., Conroy Dalton, R., Montello, D. R. (Editor) & Grossner, K. E. (Editor), 21 Dec 2014, Space in Mind: Concepts for Spatial Learning and Education. MIT Press, p. 263-280
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 18 Jun 2014.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 29 Jan 2014.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 21 Jun 2014.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper
  • Published
    Klippel, A., Wallgr眉n, J., Mast, V., Tenbrink, T. & Wolter, D., 12 Sept 2014.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper
  • Published
    Bruny茅, T. T., Gagnon, S. A., Gardony, A. L., Gopal, N. H., Taylor, H. A. & Tenbrink, T., 6 Oct 2014, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 68, 3, p. 585-607
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2013

  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Eberhard, K., Shi, H., Kubler, S. & Scheutz, M., 1 Jul 2013, In: Dialogue and Discourse. 4, 2, p. 185-214
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Seifert, I., Tenbrink, T., Tenbrink, T. (Editor), Wiener, J. M. (Editor) & Claramunt, C. (Editor), 31 Oct 2013, Representing Space in Cognition Interrelations of behaviour, language, and formal models. p. Chapter 8
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Tenbrink, T. (Editor), Wiener, J. M. (Editor) & Claramunt, C. (Editor), 31 Oct 2013, Oxford University Press.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Book
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T. (Editor), Stell, J. (Editor) & Galton, A. W. (Editor), 2 Sept 2013, Springer.
    Research output: Book/Report 鈥 Book
  • Published
    Schole, G., Tenbrink, T., Andonova, E. & Coventry, K., 16 Dec 2013.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper
  • Published
    Taylor, H. & Tenbrink, T., 12 Feb 2013, In: Cognitive Processing. 14, 2, p. 189-191
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Gralla, L. & Tenbrink, T., 31 Jul 2013.
    Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥 Paper

2012

  • Published
    Winterboer, A., Tenbrink, T., Moratz, R., Dimitrova-Vulchanova, M. (Editor) & Zee, E. V. (Editor), 29 Nov 2012, Motion Encoding in Language and Space. Oxford University Press, p. 84-101
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Klippel, A., Tenbrink, T., Montello, D. & Dimitrova-Vulchanova, M. Z. (Editor), 29 Nov 2012, Motion Encoding in Language and Space. Oxford University Press, p. 102-120
    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding 鈥 Chapter
  • Published
    Juhasz, O. E., Tenbrink, T. & Grueter, B., 20 Apr 2012, In: Kunestliche Intelligenz. 26, 2, p. 183-186
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2011

  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., 1 Feb 2011, In: Journal of Pragmatics. 43, 3, p. 704-722
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    Tenbrink, T., Coventry, K. R. & Andonova, E., 2 May 2011, In: Discourse Processes. 48, 4, p. 237-266
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review
  • Published
    H枚lscher, C., Tenbrink, T. & Wiener, J. M., 1 Nov 2011, In: Cognition. 121, 2, p. 228-247
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2010

  • Published
    Bateman, J. A., Hois, J., Ross, R. & Tenbrink, T., 1 Sept 2010, In: Artificial Intelligence. 174, 14, p. 1027-1071
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥 Article 鈥 peer-review

2025

  • Keynote talk

    15 Dec 2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Organised by WHEB with support from WAHA and WIN, to support networking between Wales Universities and European partners in the area of Resilient Cultural Heritage.

    5 Mar 2025 鈥 6 Mar 2025

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 8 Jan 2025

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2024

  • WIN Network: Sustainable Food Cymru Workshop at UWTSD

    10 Sep 2024 鈥 11 Sep 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

  • Using enterprise thinking to promote the benefits of sustainability to our community

    3 May 2024

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Contributor)

  • This workshop was an opportunity to consider the connection of public health and local greenspace, sharing insights, findings and perspectives. We explored needs,

    priorities, perceptions and preferences of stakeholders including Local Council officers and facilitators of community initiatives and discussed these alongside relevant academic expertise.

    Our guiding question for the day was:

    鈥淲hat do people across various levels of experience think about managing greenspace on a local council level, through the lens of health and wellbeing?鈥

    26 Feb 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Organiser)

2023

  • 28 Jun 2023

    Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

  • Initial findings of a UK and Irish survey of public understanding of the tide, found that 38% of the British public were unaware that the tide typically comes in twice a day. A surprising 15% of the public have some experience of being cut off by the tide.

    91精品黑料吃瓜 and RNLI press releases, aiming to warn people about tidal cut off around the extreme tides over Easter weekend were picked up by several TV and radio outlets.

    BBC Wales news (audio) MediaView (tveyes.com)

    S4C News (video) MediaView (tveyes.com)

    ITV News (video uploaded here)

    BBC Radio Cymru (interview with Prof Thora Tenbrink)

    5 Apr 2023

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • 10 Jan 2023

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2022

  • 20 Oct 2022

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 22 Aug 2022 鈫

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Invitation to present a series of 10 lectures to a large audience in Beijing, with subsequent publication as a monograph in the Brill series 鈥淒istinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics鈥

    Aug 2022 鈥 2023

    Links:

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Project abstract: Every year, hundreds of lifeboat and lifeguard operations occur to rescue coastal users who have become cut off by tide. Despite the RNLI鈥檚 best efforts there are still multiple fatalities.

    Ultimately, to reduce the number of emergencies a deeper understanding of the reasons why coastal users become exposed to this hazard is required. This project will address this by looking at people鈥檚 concepts and understanding of the tide. Our goal is to help the RNLI develop precautionary measures in a more targeted way, responding directly to coastal users鈥 conceptual needs.

    For instance, people will naturally generalise from previous experiences with the tide, not realising that tidal movements can differ radically between places and at different times. Furthermore, they will normally expect that the water will come in straight to the shore, not diagonally or in a curved or irregular fashion; they expect tide to come in quite slowly, and to be able to simply walk back on the sandbanks to the shore. However, the tide rarely just uniformly advances and retreats across a beach. Instead, it will initially flow laterally along channels and around sandbanks, cutting them off from the mainland and removing any safe route back to land.

    Funding awarded through the 91精品黑料吃瓜 Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = 拢11,514

    1 Apr 2022 鈥 31 Mar 2023

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

  • Advice on the use of face coverings or masks by the public after the peak of the Omicron wave. Work for AHRC grant quoted in Welsh Government report

    11 Mar 2022

    Links:

    Activity: Other (Contributor)

2021

  • 25 Nov 2021

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Invited talk at the Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship

    21 Oct 2021

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 6 Aug 2021

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2020

  • Fully funded 5-day seminar awarded to Paulo Santos, Pedro Fernandez, Christian Freksa, and Thora Tenbrink.

    19 Apr 2020 鈥 24 Apr 2020

    Links:

    Activity: Other (Organiser)

2019

  • 5 Sep 2019

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 24 Apr 2019

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Invited Lecture and Seminar on CODA

    10 Apr 2019

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2018

  • Invited talk

    28 Nov 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Invited talk in the Symposium "From fieldwork to modelling: Explaining the variability of linguistic spatial referencing systems"

    12 Sep 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 2 Jul 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 18 Jun 2018

    Links:

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)

  • 24 May 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Invited talk, Symposium on "Space in Text, Language, Mind: An Interdisciplinary Discussion", Department of Geography.

    13 Apr 2018

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2017

  • Invited talk, Cognitive linguistics research seminar series

    7 Dec 2017

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Synesthesia and thinking differently

    22 Aug 2017

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Thora Tenbrink was one of the main organisers of this event.

    26 Jul 2017 鈥 29 Jul 2017

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)

  • 11 Jul 2017

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

  • Invited talk

    6 Apr 2017

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2016

  • Invited research seminar talk

    23 Nov 2016

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Cognitive Discourse Analysis

    25 Sep 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)

  • Tenbrink, Thora. 2016. Verbalizing navigation: Explicit and implicit concepts.

    13 Aug 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • Full-day tutorial: Analysing discourse relations in natural language: The case of space and time.

    10 Aug 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)

  • My contribution: Tenbrink, Thora and Taylor, Holly A. (2016) How cultural background affects running route descriptions. Spatial Cognition Conference, Philadelphia, USA, August 2-5, 2016.

    2 Aug 2016 鈥 6 Aug 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

  • 28 Jul 2016

    Activity: Examination (Examiner)

  • 18 Jul 2016 鈥 22 Jul 2016

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser)

  • The episode was broadcast twice (once in April and once in August 2016)

    25 Apr 2016

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Interviewee)

  • Invited lecture and workshop on New paths of Research in Linguistics

    18 Jan 2016

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • Linguistisches Kolloquium, Fakult盲t f眉r Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

    13 Jan 2016

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

2015

  • We need to make digital navigation tools more human 鈥 here鈥檚 how

    15 Dec 2015

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Presenter)

  • Invited guest lecture

    26 Nov 2015

    Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)

  • 24 Nov 2015

    Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)

  • 01/11/2024 鈥 15/04/2025 (Finished)

  • 01/03/2024 鈥 15/10/2025 (Active)

  • 01/01/2024 鈥 15/01/2027 (Active)

  • 01/04/2023 鈥 10/08/2024 (Finished)

  • 01/12/2022 鈥 11/08/2024 (Finished)

  • 01/01/2022 鈥 01/08/2022 (Finished)

  • 01/01/2021 鈥 31/12/2199 (Active)

EU Project: Enhancing spatial ability to help close the gender gap in STEM听Press release

Consortium member of EU project 956124: SellSTEM, EU H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 Consortium initiated by Dr. Gavin Duffy, Dublin. Title: Spatial thinking in STEM learning: Training a new generation of researchers to increase enrolment and gender balance in STEM learning by addressing deficits in spatial ability among children in Europe. Duration: January 2021 - December 2024.