Who works here?

The CLE is comprised of several core members of staff, researchers on a variety of externally funded projects, PhD students supervised within the Centre, and Masters students on the MSc programme in Evolution of Language and Cognition. In addition, we have associate members who are involved in collaborative research both within the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere.

The current Director of the Centre is Kenny Smith.

Academic staff and post-docs

Richard Blythe
Jennifer Culbertson
Annie Holtz
Jim Hurford
Simon Kirby
Kenny Smith

Research students

Henry Conklin
Lauren Fletcher
Juan Guerrero Montero
Shangmin Guo

Associate members

Nicolas Claidière
Christine Cuskley
Chris Cummins
Olga Fehér
Itamar Kastner
Douglas Martin
Frank Mollica
Hugh Rabagliati
Marieke Schouwstra
Thom Scott-Phillips
Mónica Tamariz
Rob Truswell
Elizabeth Wonnacott
Wataru Uegaki

Past members and students

Clem Ashton
Mark Atkinson
Rachael Bailes
Henry Brighton
Erin Brown
Fausto Carcassi
Jon Carr
Lucía Castillo
Hannah Cornish
Isabelle Dautriche
Dan Dediu
Michael Dunn
Juliette Dunstone
Vanessa Ferdinand
Molly Flaherty
Stella Frank
Dave Hawkey
Stefan Hoefler
Hanna Järvinen
Anna Jon-And
Niklas Johansson
Tamar Johnson
Jasmeen Kanwal
Andres Karjus
Rachel Kindellan
Anna Kinsella
Fiona Kirton
Jia Loy
Mora Maldonado
Alexander Martin
Anna Martowicz
Yevgen Matusevych
Marc Meisezahl
Ashley Micklos
Yasamin Motamedi
Keelin Murray
Danielle Naegeli
Alan Nielsen
Jonas Nölle
Cathleen O’Grady
Nina Poth
Joseph Poulshock
Justin Quillinan
Andrea Ravignani
Graham Ritchie
Seán Roberts
Laura de Rooij
Amanda Royka
Carmen Saldaña
Amira Saouri
Asha Sato
Thom Scott-Phillips
José Segovia Martín
Catriona Silvey
Helen Sims-Williams
Barbora Skarabella
Andrew Smith
Márton Sóskuthy
Matt Spike
Kevin Stadler
Justin Sulik
Jennifer Sullivan
Carrie Theisen White
James Thomas
Bill Thompson
Viktor Trón
Hanna Tuulikki
Tessa Verhoef
Svenja Wagner
Fang Wang
Daniel Wedgwood
James Winters
Marieke Woensdregt
Lucie Wolters
Hajime Yamauchi
Jelle Zuidema