Elena Lieven - Curriculum Vitae#
VISITING SCHOLAR
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 1979, 1984, 1996
- University of Barcelona, Spain 1988
- University of California, Berkeley, US 1989, 1997
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 1998
More than 50 seminars given at universities worldwide. In addition, since 2010 more than 45 invited presentations at major conferences and workshops internationally. Recent highlights include:
- Opening plenary speaker: Workshop Communicative Development: A cross-linguistic, cross-cultural comparison San Jose, Costa Rica 2011
- Opening plenary speaker: International conference on Variation in first and second language acquisition: comparative perspectives. Paris, 2011
- Invited speaker: Communicative development British Academy Latin America Link Program, 2012
- Invited participant in the Ernst Strüngmann Forum on Cultural Evolution, 2012
- Invited plenary speaker: UK-Cognitive Linguistics Conference London, 2012
- Invited plenary speaker: COLAJE conference Paris, 2012
- Invited plenary speaker: 3rd Early Language Acquisition Conference Lyons, 2012
- Invited keynote: Conference on the acquisition of referring expressions Paris, 2013
- Invited keynote address Boston University Conference on Language Development Boston, 2013
- Invited plenary address at Georgetown University Round Table, Washington DC, 2014
- Keynote speaker, BASIS annual conference, London, 2015
- Invited member of Program Advisory Committee: Strüngmann Forum Frankfurt, 2016
- Invited plenary speaker: VIIIth International Conference of Language Acquisition Mallorca, 2016
- Nijmegen lectures, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, 2018
- Invited lecture, Annual Conference, Danish Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Odense, 2018
Ph.D. students: 47
Masters students: 18 students supervised
Ph.D examinations: Internal=10; External=25 PhDs, including students from UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, France
Service and Leadership
- 2014 Director, ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD)
- 2000 - 2014 Director, Max Planck Child Study Centre
- 2012 - 2016 Lead, Centre for Developmental Science and Disorders, Institute of Brain and Behaviour and Mental Health
- 1996 - 2005 Managing Editor, Journal of Child Language
- 1989 - 1992 Junior Vice-President, President and Senior Vice-President, Manchester AUT