LSA "Linguistics Beyond Academia" Special Interest Group Webinar 2015
The "Linguistics Beyond Academia" SIG speaks to the needs of three parts of the linguistics community:
- Professionals with linguistics training
- Linguistics students (at the graduate and undergraduate levels)
- Linguistics faculty
The SIG is co-convened by Anna Marie Trester (FrameWorks Institute; [email protected]), and Anastasia Nylund (Georgetown University: [email protected]).
Our goals include:
- Promoting the inclusion of linguists outside traditional academic and faculty career paths into the activities and programming organized by the Linguistic Society of America.
- Providing networking opportunities for linguists beyond academia at LSA Annual Meetings and other events.
- Facilitating mentoring and communication between linguists working across fields and current linguistics graduate students, undergraduate students, and recent graduates.
- Partnering with industry linguists to increase graduate and undergraduate students’ awareness of career paths and opportunities across professional fields.
- Working to increase linguistics faculty’s awareness of professional opportunities and the role of linguistic research in non-academic contexts.
Listen to the "Linguistics Beyond Academia" SIG webinar from September 24, 2015:
LSA "Linguistics Beyond Academia" Special Interest Group