Ashton Memorial, Williamson Park, Lancaster. Photograph: Claire Nance.

Welcome to UKLVC15

September 2025, Lancaster

Organised by Lancaster University & The University of Central Lancashire


UKLVC is a biennial conference that showcases international research on language variation and change, sociolinguistics, and dialectology, as well as applications of these branches of linguistics to a variety of different fields. We seek to foster diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language variation in all of its forms and across a wide range of linguistic and cultural contexts.

We welcome research on spoken and sign languages. The languages of the conference will be English and British Sign Language (BSL).

For any questions about accessibility at the conference, please contact the organising committee at the earliest opportunity via the conference email address.

UKLVC information in BSL. Video: Nick Palfreyman.

Important Dates

6 January 2025

21 March 2025

9 May 2025

May 2025

2-4 September 2025

Abstract submission opens

Abstract submission deadline

Notification of decisions

Registration opens

UKLVC15