Giuditta Caliendo – Coordinator (University of Lille)
Giuditta Caliendo is a discourse analyst and an associate professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lille (research lab of the French Scientific Research National Center Savoirs, Textes, Langage). She is a former Fulbright Scholar (University of Washington) and co-Editor in Chief of the international journal I-LanD (Identity, Language and Diversity). Her research interests include Discourse Studies, Genre analysis, institutional communication, multilingual legal drafting, identity representation in the media, the discourse of perinatal death. Her recent publications include: Urban Multilingualism in Europe. Bridging the Gap between Language Policies and Language Practices (de Gruyter, 2019, with S. Slembrouck, P. Van Avermaet and R. Janssens); Rethinking Community. Discourse, Identity and Citizenship in the EU (Peter Lang, 2018); Traduire la criminalité: Perspectives traductologiques et discursives (Presses Universtaires du Septentrion, 2019, with C. Oster).
Eline Put is a PhD student in English linguistics at the University of Lille. She started her thesis on metaphors and neologisms of perinatal loss in Dutch in 2023, after having obtained her Master's degree in multilingual communication (Dutch, English, German).
Océane Foubert is a post-doc researcher in the PERINAT project. She is analysing the (new) words used by bereaved parents to refer to themselves and their children.
Maarten Lemmens is professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Lille, France. He also teaches Swedish linguistics at the same university. He obtained a PhD in English linguistics at the KU Leuven, Belgium (1995) and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) at the University of Lille, France (2005). His domains of expertise are usage-based linguistics, cognitive (lexical) semantics, and multimodality. He has worked mainly on constructional alternations in English, posture verbs in Dutch and English, Odia light verb constructions (in collaboration with K. Sahoo), and language and gender. He has published two monographs (1998, 2021) and more than 30 peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of topics. Maarten Lemmens is the founder and first president of the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive (AFLiCo; www.aflico.fr) and the former president of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (2013-2017; www.cogling.org). He is also a certified cabinet maker and enjoys badminton, running, gardening and singing. Maarten lives in Belgium with his wife Hilde; they have 4 children and 2 grandchildren.
Catherine Ruchon (University of Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Catherine Ruchon holds a PhD in Linguistics and she is an associate member of the Pléiade research laboratory at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. She is specialised in discourse analysis and works on the expression of suffering, more particularly in the field of motherhood and mourning. Her PhD thesis is entitled “On the Analgesic Virtues of Discourse? The expression of Pain and Attachment in the Discourse on Maternity” (2015). Her current research topics are animal discourse analysis, discourse and identity, intervention linguistics, and language in the social media. Her perspective is environmental and intersectional: her investigations include aspects related to the environment and to the interactants’ distinguishing traits in terms of their social origin, ethnicity, gender and age.
Lola Marinato is a PhD student in English Linguistics at the University of Lille. She started her thesis on language and perinatal loss in French and English in 2021. She also teaches various undergraduate courses in the Department of English at the University of Lille.
I am an associate professor in statistics at "Université de Lille" from 2014. I teach essentially probability and statistics in bachelor and master degrees. Since 2020, I am also responsible for the organisation of the licence MIASHS (Mathématiques et Informatiques Appliquées aux Sciences Humaines et Sociales) in third year.
I am a member of the Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, my research in applied statistics focuses on Bayesian analysis and spatial statistics. I am interested in complex data modelling, especially using hierarchical models. I have turn to bayesian non-parametric and especially the Dirichlet process mixture mode.
Rosa Fabbricatore (University of Naples Federico II)
Rosa Fabbricatore is a psychologist and a PhD student in Social Sciences and Statistics at University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She was previously enrolled as a scholarship holder in the European project "Adaptive Learning for Statistics" (ALEAS Erasmus+) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Naples Federico II, in which she contributed to the development of a tutoring system for teaching and assessing statistical knowledge. Her research interests focus on statistical methods applied to social sciences, education, and social health psychology. In particular, her main research topics relate to latent variable models such as structural equation models (SEM), Item Response Theory (IRT) models and Gaussian mixture models (GMM).
Associate Professor in Statistics at Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II.
The main achievements of her activity consist in the proposal of a class of statistical models used for analysing ordinal scores. Specifically, she proved the identifiability of this class of models, which represents a milestone for statistical inference and effective usage. Furthermore, she extended the models for adapting them to non-standard situations as in multilevel/hierarchical contexts and when overdispersion or shelter effects are present. She published more than 80 original articles as main author in peer reviewed journals and proceedings. Thanks to her works, she gained a good reputation in the area of statistical modelling of ordinal data. She has been visiting researcher at Lancaster, Genève, Iowa Universities and at London School of Economics. She is the Departmental coordinator Erasmus + programme Key action1 for the agreement with Technische Universität Dortmund Fakultät Statistik – Dortmund; Athens University of Economics and Business – Athens, and Kadir Has University – Istanbul. Moreover, she participated as researcher in competing research projects. She has been awarded with grants with an international profile as a Fulbright scholar; the Virtual Mobility Grant - Cost action FinAI (CA19130 – Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance – Towards a transparent financial industry): https://fin-ai.eu/ and International Advanced Fellowships, STAR-UBB Academic Research Network of Excellence (STAR-UBB-N). She is the Principal Investigator of Erasmus+ KA131Blended Intensive Programme Advanced Analytics for Data Science. She has recently included Analytics in Health, Fintech, financial inclusion and inequality in her research interests.
Rosaria Romano is an associate professor of Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II. She was visiting student at the Center for Biospectroscopy and Data Modeling MATFORSK in Oslo and a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Her research interests cover multi-block data analysis, i.e., the analysis of multiple data tables that share a common dimension. The main results of her research activity concern the study of the different types of uncertainty within these models, the proposal of strategies for the analysis of different multi-block data structures and the proposal of new models for the analysis of multi-block data connected by a chain of causal relationships (path modelling). Her scientific activity has always focused on methodological analysis's implications in different research areas: sensory analysis, consumer analysis, marketing, and education.
Jeannette Littlemore is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. Her research explores the role played by metaphor and metonymy in language education and in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. She is interested in the ways in which people employ figurative language to share emotional experiences. Her books include: Unpacking Creativity: The Role of Figurative Communication in Advertising, (with Paula Perez-Sobrino and Samantha Ford, CUP, 2021).Metaphors in the Mind: Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor (CUP, 2019), Metonymy: Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication (CUP, 2015); Figurative Language, Genre and Register (with Alice Deignan and Elena Semino, CUP, 2013); Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) and Figurative Thinking and Foreign Language Learning (with Graham Low, Palgrave MacMillan, 2006).
Sarah Turner is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Linguistics in the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University. Her research focuses on the analysis of figurative language production to provide insights into physical, psychological and social experiences, with a current focus on the experience of grief and bereavement. She is particularly interested in how individuals use language in creative ways to help them to understand, conceptualise and communicate their experiences, and how an analysis of such language can be used to inform better care.
