mgrJames Foran

James 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

Awards & Schemes

  • ASSET Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training 2018-2019, Royal Academy of Music