The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Language and Medicine (CIRLaM) draws together the expertise of linguists with the insider’s perspective of academics and practitioners from all areas of medicine and health to share a common focus on cutting-edge applied research into language data and communication processes and engage in the development of a shared understanding of the topic under investigation.

Bringing together national and international researchers, CIRLaM organizes conferences, seminars and visiting lectures, establishes liaisons with other institutions and academics, and undertakes research projects by a combination of individual and collaborative research of the highest international quality.

In May 2022, CIRLaM organised its first international conference, Ethics and plagiarism in medical research writing and publishing: issues and perspectives, to provide a stage for an extensive exploration of ethics and plagiarism in medical academia and to understand how and to what extent the language-and-text processing components of medical discourse can and should be scrutinized across the genres that matter to scientific medical research writing practices and publishing.

In May 2023, CIRLaM organised its second international conference, Communicating medical science in the digital age: culture, knowledge, expertise, practices, to explore medical science communication as it evolves in the digital age, bringing together academics and practitioners from the area of linguistics and other fields to critically discuss and rethink emerging trends and variations in medical science communication models where culture, knowledge, expertise, and identity are played out, contributing to the discursive study of texts and genres that matter to internal and external processes and practices of medical science communication.