April M. S. McMahon#
| Membership Number: | 2802 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Vice-President Teaching, Learning and Students and Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Manchester
- 2016 - 2019 Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education, University of Kent
- 2011 - 2016 Vice-Chancellor, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
- 2009 - 2011 Vice-President Planning, Resources and Research Policy, University of Edinburgh.
- 2008 - 2009 Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh
- 2005 - 2011 Forbes Professor of English, University of Edinburgh.
- 2000 - 2004 Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield; Head of Department of English Language and Linguistics, then Head of the School of English.
- 1988 - 2000 University Assistant Lecturer, then University Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Cambridge. Fellow and Tutor, Selwyn College
- 1990 PhD, English Language, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Linguistics
- Comparisons between various English accents, with a particular interest in Scots
- Language change
- Historical linguistics
- Phonology
- Evolutionary linguistics
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
- Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge
