Research output per year
Research output per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS)
The School comprises Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (Linguistics and English Language). We offer a rich and diverse learning and research environment for our staff and students, with close links between our three subject areas, alongside other world-class research areas within the University and beyond.
There are over 160 academic staff within PPLS, and the breadth of expertise ranges from analytic philosophy and the study of English language, through theoretical and applied linguistics, philosophy of science and epistemology and experimental psychology, to cognitive neurosciences and genetic influences on human behaviour. We have 5 research centres which drive our research and help put our research into practice, connecting academia with industry, policy and the general public.
Read more about our research on the school website.
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is part of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Profiles
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Sharon Abrahams
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Neuropsychology
- Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Peter Ackema
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Morphosyntax
Person: Academic: Research Active
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Mahrad Almotahari
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Senior Lecturer In Philosophy
Person: Academic: Research Active
Research output
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Methylome-wide association studies and epigenetic biomarker development for 133 mass spectrometry-assessed circulating proteins in 14,671 Generation Scotland participants
Robertson, J. A., Bajzik, J., Vernardis, S., Chybowska, A. D., McCartney, D. L., Grauslys, A., Mur, J., Smith, H. M., Campbell, A., Drake, C., Grant, H., Pearce, J., Russ, T. C., Adkin, P., White, M., Brigden, C., Messner, C. B., Porteous, D. J., Hayward, C. & Cox, S. R. & 4 others, , 8 Dec 2025, In: Genome Biology. 26, 1, p. 417Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cognitive factors in code-switching: In response to Bentahila and Davies (1992)
Kennis, N. & Branigan, H. P., May 2026, In: Journal of neurolinguistics. 78, 8 p., 101309.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What enables human language? A biocultural framework
Arnon, I., Carmel, L., Claidière, N., Fitch, W. T., Goldin-Meadow, S., Kirby, S., Okanoya, K., Raviv, L., Wolters, L. & Fisher, S. E., 4 Dec 2025, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 390, 6775, 12 p., eadq8303.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Activities
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European Conference on Personality
Mottus, R. (Chair)
Jul 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Edinburgh Science Festival
Hawkins, R. (Presenter) & Loughnan, S. (Presenter)
Apr 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Foucault and the archive as 'system of enunciability'
Joseph, J. E. (Assessor)
16 Feb 2026Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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2017 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize
Massimi, M. (Recipient), 20 Jul 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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3 Minute Thesis UK People’s Choice Winner
Long, M. (Recipient), 12 Sept 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Paws on the Beat: Investigating the Role of Companion Animals in Supporting Coping, Mental Health, and Resilience Among UK Police Officers.
Hawkins, R. (Principal Investigator), Brodie, Z. (Co-investigator) & Loughnan, S. (Co-investigator)
16/12/25 → 31/07/26
Project: Research
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Bridging Responsible AI Divides (Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem) – Years 4-6
Vallor, S. (Principal Investigator), Vallor, S. (Principal Investigator), Luger, E. (Co-investigator) & Sethi, N. (Co-investigator)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
14/11/25 → 13/05/29
Project: Research
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Linguistics TikTok
Ilbury, C. (Principal Investigator)
7/11/25 → …
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Datasets
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The Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence
Gotthard, L. (Creator) & Meurman-Solin, A. (Creator), FIN-CLARIN, 14 Jan 2025
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2024070602
Dataset
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Listening test materials for "Waveform generation based on signal reshaping for statistical parametric speech synthesis"
Espic, F. (Creator), Valentini Botinhao, C. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & King, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 24 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1433
Dataset
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Listening test materials for "A template-based approach for speech synthesis intonation generation using LSTMs
Ronanki, S. (Creator), Henter, G. (Creator), Wu, Z. (Creator) & King, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 7 Jul 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1435
Dataset
Press/Media
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Has the Turing test been passed by artificial intelligence?
3/12/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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COVID lockdown linked to increase in early child development issues
27/11/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Mum 'horrified' by AI deepfake TikTok of daughter describing her death
27/11/25
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research