About

LIFELANGS – A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities – is a Strand II Emerging Hubs of Excellence project (2025 – 2029) 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.

LIFELANGS is led by two Principal Investigators, Dr Aisling O’Boyle and Professor Lorna Carson and by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Centre for Language Education Research at Queen’s University Belfast and the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences at Trinity College Dublin.