Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, University of Coventry (UK)
Brief info
Hilary Nesi’s research primarily concerns the discourse of English for academic purposes, and the design and use of dictionaries and reference tools. She was principal investigator for the AHRB-funded project to create the BASE corpus of British Academic Spoken English (2001-2005), and for the ESRC-funded project to create the BAWE corpus of British Academic Written English (2004-2007). Hilary has also collected and analysed the business correspondence component of the JISC-funded BT e-Archive, and was principal investigator for the AHRC Research Networking project ‘Digitising experiences of migration: the development of interconnected letter collections’.