A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
You are warmly invited to join us at our in-person project launches in the new year:
- 07/01/2026 Canada Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast
- 08/01/2026 Odyssey Room, Alex Hotel, Dublin 2
Please complete the registration link in order to indicate your attendance.
People in Ireland north and south, east and west, have expressed the desire for a more inclusive society, with a focus on better supporting language learning and promoting understanding between different cultures. Our goal is to help build a more inclusive and stronger future for everyone, where we will know more about each other and we will understand each other better.
LIFELANGS is led by a team of multidisciplinary researchers from Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin.
During the project we are gathering evidence about how people use different languages and live in different cultural settings. We are creating a true living observatory of shared languages and identities where people can contribute, learn, document, and share information/knowledges. Working together with local communities, we will collect data on how people of all ages learn and use languages—both spoken and signed—throughout their lives, in places like homes, schools, workplaces, and social spaces.
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LIFELANGS is a Strand 2 project funded under the North South Research Programme (NSRP). The NSRP is a collaborative scheme funded through the Government’s Shared Island Fund. It is being administered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
