Dr Duygu Candarli

Research groups

Research interests

• Second language writing, writing assessment
• Corpus linguistics, learner corpora, phraseology
• Academic discourse, discourse analysis

Current research

Dr Duygu Candarli’s research is at the intersection of language education and corpus linguistics. She is a mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in longitudinal research and quantitative data analysis methods. She combines corpus linguistics methods and qualitative methods, including interviews, in her research. She specialises in second language writing, writing assessment, corpus linguistics and learner corpora, and academic discourse. She also has experience in interdisciplinary research, using corpus linguistics techniques, and co-producing research with stakeholders beyond academia. She has published her research in leading journals of the field, including the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Reading and Writing, Critical Discourse Studies, and Corpora. 

Dr Candarli has secured research funding from Cambridge Assessment (PI), the British Academy (Co-I), the John Rylands Research Institute (PI), the European Union's Horizon Europe programme (Co-I), and the IELTS joint-funded research programme (Co-PI, funded by British Council, IDP Australia and Cambridge English). She currently leads a work package as part of her role as a Co-Investigator (Co-I) of a Horizon Europe-funded research project (funding: approximately €3.5 million) that has six academic and six non-academic partners in Europe.

She is invited to act as a reviewer for a number of international journals, including Applied Linguistics, The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Corpora. She is a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College and is regularly invited to review research grant proposals. She is an Associate Editor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications journal (Springer Nature).

Research projects