Lauren Gawne

Lauren Gawne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Linguistics. Lauren's research focuses on the use of gesture with speech and the cross-cultural variation in gestures. Lauren also works on the use of emoji, critical approaches to research data and the grammar of Tibeto-Burman languages.

Lauren is a passionate advocate for communicating linguistics to a range of audiences. She co-hosts the podcast Lingthusiasm with Gretchen McCulloch, and runs the generalist linguistics website Superlinguo. Lauren was a founding organiser of the International Conference for Communicating Linguistics and the LingComm grants program.