GOAL

The Martin Centre's principal research foci include academic discourse, forensic linguistics, language typology, translation studies and corpus linguistics – research highlighted in a dedicated forum focusing on one of these areas each year.

Alongside this research, the Centre conducts intensive training courses in systemic functional linguistics and symposia for PhD research students. A selection of papers presented at these symposia are published annually in a dedicated e-journal edited by Centre staff or the Journal of Contemporary Foreign Language Studies.

In addition to its permanent staff, the Centre hosts Visiting Professors and Postdoctoral Fellows specializing in functional linguistics and its applications. These researchers join Centre staff in contributing regularly to the dedicated SFL section of the Journal of Contemporary Foreign Language Studies.