{"id":6,"date":"2016-05-27T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:55:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I am an Associate Professor\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/edacs\/departments\/englishlanguage\/index.aspx\">Department of Linguistics and Communication<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/index.aspx\">University of Birmingham<\/a>,\u00a0as well as Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/research\/centres-institutes\/centre-for-corpus-research\">Centre for Corpus Research<\/a>. My primary research interests include second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and quantitative data analysis for applied linguistics. <br><br>In addition to this website, you can also find me on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrkm_a\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bham.academia.edu\/AkiraMurakami\">Academia.edu<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/akira-murakami-13134725\">LinkedIn<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=SRttOXgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Email-1024x78.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-653\" style=\"width:200px;height:20px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Email-1024x78.png 1024w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Email-300x23.png 300w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Email-768x58.png 768w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Email-1272x96.png 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4019hhi-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4019hhi-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4019hhi-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4019hhi-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_4019hhi.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Associate Professor\u00a0in the\u00a0Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham,\u00a0as well as Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. My primary research interests include second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and quantitative data analysis for applied linguistics. In addition to this website, you can also find me on\u00a0Twitter\/X,\u00a0Academia.edu,\u00a0LinkedIn, and\u00a0Google Scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akira-murakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}