mgrJames Foran
Doktorant (PhD student)
Websites/Profiles
Degrees & Education
- BMus(Hons) in Music, Royal Academy of Music, London
- MPhil in Musicology, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
- Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge Assessment)
Research Interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Attitudes and Ideologies
- Sociophonetics and Perceptual Dialectology
- Language Revitalisation
- Linguistic-Musicological Interdisciplinarity
- Irish linguistics
- Language Variation and Change (Irish, Polish, and English)
Teaching Experience
- English as a Foreign Language
- Irish as a Foreign Language
- Business English
- English Pronunciation
Other Professional Experience
- Academic proofreading for scientific journals
- Oral Examiner for Cambridge Assessment
Conference Presentations
- 'Traditional song performance as a resource in minority language research: A perspective from Irish.' 5th Poznań Conference of Celtic Studies, Poznań, Poland, July 2024
- 'Ainu and Irish revitalisation: A comparison of two endangered-language singing cultures.’ 9th Young Linguists Meeting, Poznań, Poland, May 2025
- ‘Exploring Language Ideologies and Attitudes in sean-nós singing culture: a corpus-based approach.’ Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, Universitӓt Bonn, Germany, August 2025
Awards & Grants
- ASSET Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training 2018-2019, Royal Academy of Music
- ID-UB Grant nr 158 „Badania doktoranckie - badania oraz szkolenia i warsztaty międzynarodowe”, Library Research, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- ID-UB Grant nr 192 „Wsparcie udziału naukowców i doktorantów w prestiżowych konferencjach naukowych”, Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, Universitӓt Bonn, Germany
Outreach & Popularisation
- ‘Amhránaíocht trí Ghaeilge’, Irish-Language Singing Workshop, Celtic Research Circle, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, February 2025
- ‘Irish Culture and Language in the 21st Century’, St. Patrick’s Day Guest Lecture, Zespół Szkół Komunikacji im. Hipolita Cegielskiego, Poznań, March 2025