The Researcher Development team were pleased to support the 5^th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) held at Swansea University from 23^rd – 24^th May 2024.

The event, organised by Dr Vivienne Rogers, brought together researchers from 12 countries interested in linguistic acquisition and processing, and the role of bi/multilingualism in (neuro)cognition.

Hosting the Symposium at Swansea University was an excellent opportunity to showcase the important role of Swansea University and other Welsh institutions in contributing to bilingualism research on an international scale.

The two-day Symposium included four plenary sessions, two workshops, fourteen research talks and 52 research poster presentations!

Our 2020 Dillwyn Medallist for Humanities & Creative Arts, Dr Gwennan Hingam (Swansea University) delivered a plenary session for Symposium in Welsh, titled ‘Developing personal integration projects through a multilingual Welsh language provision for adult migrants’.

ECR Network member and UK Young Academy Welsh Representative Dr Emily Lowthian, delivered a pre-conference workshop titled ‘Latent Variable Modelling’ which explored the theory and practical application of Latent Class Analysis using software such as R, SPSS, MPlus as Stata.

We were pleased to support researchers working in the field of bilingualism research by offering travel bursaries for ECR Network members attending the Symposium and sponsoring the prizes for the poster competition.

The winners of the poster competition were:

1^st Prize: Figen Karaka, Centre for Language Studies Radbound University

2^nd Prize: Mia Coutinho, Georgetown University

3^rd Prize (joint): Felicity Sarnoff and Carly Levy, Princetown State University

3^rd Prize (joint): Duygu F. Şafak, TU Braunschweig

The full programme for the Symposium can be viewed here