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<p>I am an independent researcher providing consulting in behavioural and social science, data analysis and visualisation. I have decades of experience teaching, and also run workshops in my areas of expertise for all ages and stages of education and professional development. I also spend a lot of time writing - you can <a href="https://ccuskley.github.io/blog/index.html" target="_blank">check out my blog here</a>.</p>
<p>Currently, I am available for one-off workshops, as well as consulting both for small-scale project components (e.g., just data visualisation) and larger scale project management and execution (e.g., full data collection and analysis pipelines for behavioural tasks). You can find out more about my consultancy on <a href="https://www.cogknit.uk" target="_blank">the CogKnit website</a>. Get in touch (chrissy <span class="fas fa-at"></span> cogknit.uk) to enquire about how I can support your work.</p>
<p>I used to work as a full-time academic in UK higher education; if you want, you can <a href="#FindOutMore">:read more</a> about my previous work</a>.</p>
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<p>We all make similar connections between the senses: e.g., most people think a high pitch is more light than dark. This capacity underlies linguistic iconicity, which likely played a crucial role in language evolution, and has important implications for everything from language acquisition to branding and marketing.</p>
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<p>Much of how we use language in the modern world is through writing - but this is an evolutionarily recent phenomenon. What implications does this have for how we think about language, and how has it changed our relationship to it?</p>
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<p>All languages have rules, but almost all rules have exceptions. How do exceptions to rules arise, or why do they survive? How is this affected by learner biases, interaction, and population structure?</p>
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<p>While information theory has been a key tool for measurement in language and cognition, it is theoretically underutilized. This thread of research considers the potential of information theory as a conceptual and theoretical tool in understanding language evolution.
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<p>In addition to the courses below, I have supervised projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Topics included cross-linguistic and cross-sensory sound symbolism, teaching and learning in cultural transmission, and population based models of language evolution. If you're interested in supervision, please <span style="color:blue" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="christine.cuskley [at] ncl.ac.uk">contact me</span>.
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<p> <b>Courses</b>: Experimental Methods in Linguistics (Newcastle)</p>
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<p>I like to code - I trained myself using the internet. I make experiments, visualisations, and other fun things. Browse below to see the latest</p>
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<p>An online exhbition built in collaboration with Charis Saitis and Sebastian Löbbers at QMUL. Exhibition built using <a href="https://webslides.tv" target="_blank">WebSlides</a>, Seeing Music game developed mainly in React with Sebastian Löbbers.</p>
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<p>A generator for Heptapod B symbols from the film <em>Arrival</em>, created for a Science Festival event with New Media Scotland. <a href="https://ccuskley.github.io/blog/posts/genheptapod.html" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></p>
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<p>An interactive visualisation of the data from <a href="https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01203-7" target="_blank">Cuskley, Dingemanse, Kirby & van Leeuwen (2019)</a>. Explore the consistency and structure of vowel-colour associations in a large sample of synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Written in <a href="p5js.org" target="_blank">p5js</a>.</p>
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<p>An interactive version of an agent-based model where agents bootstrap a vocabulary of labels for colors through interaction. Written in <a href="p5js.org" target="_blank">p5js</a>.</p>
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<p>A more structured version of a sequence learning experiment which was part of a language evolution exhibit at the <a href="https://www.dhmd.de" target="_blank">Deutsches Heygiene-Museum</a> in Dresden in 2017 (<a href="https://bit.ly/ferrovid" target="_blank">explainer here</a>). Written mainly in <a href="p5js.org" target="_blank">p5js</a>.</p>
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<p>A visualisation of an idiosyncratic version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_model" target="_blank">voter model</a>, where nodes are pixels that adapt (or not) to their neighbors. Written in <a href="p5js.org" target="_blank">p5js</a>.</p>
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<p>One of my first successful coding projects was a Python insult generator, in the vein of <a href="http://blogtorch.blogspot.com/2006/01/pop-quiz-why-are-you-such-pussy-moment.html" target="_blank">the late, great Burnmaker</a>. Plain JavaScript, mainly just using the power of regular expressions.</p>
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<p>Writing is a big part of what I do - ideas aren't much use unless you can communicate them to an audience. I mostly write non-fiction, although, who knows what the future holds. For more informal writing, you can <a href="https://ccuskley.github.io/blog/index.html" target="_blank">find my blog here</a>, and a list of selected scholarly publications below. Many are open access, or copies are made available below.</p>
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<p>My academic background is broadly in cognitive science; first I studied psychology, (BA, American University, 2005), and then the evolution of langauge and cognition (MSc, University of Edinburgh, 2008), as well as theoretical and applied linguistics (PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2013). I have collaborated with linguists, psychologists, and complex systems scientists to study issues surrounding the emergence, evolution, and dynamics of human language.</p>
<p>From 2019-2025, I was a Reader in Language and Cognition at <a href="https://ncl.ac.uk" target="_blank">Newcastle University</a>, working in the <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/" target="_blank">School of English Language, Literature and Linguistcs</a> within the <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/research/linguistics/lead/" target="_blank">Language Evolution, Acquisition and Development (LEAD)</a> group, and as Co-Director of the cross-faculty <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cbe/" target="_blank">Cognition, Behaviour and Evolution</a> group.</p>
<p>Prior to 2019, I worked at the <a href="http://ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">University of Edinburgh</a> in the <a href="http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/cle/" target="_blank">Centre for Language Evolution</a>. Before this, Iwas a postdoctoral researcher in the <a href="http://socialdynamics.it" target="_blank">Social Dynamics Group</a> based at the <a href="http://isi.it" target="_blank">Institute for Scientific Interchange</a> in Turin, Italy from 2014-2015, and the <a href="http://en.uniroma1.it" target="_blank">University of Rome La Sapienza</a> from 2013-2014. I still collaborate with colleages in Italy via the Sony Computer Science Labs in Rome.</p>
<p>Along the way, I've been raising two new humans with my partner - we've lived mainly in Scotland and Italy. I'm originally from New York, but I haven't lived in the US since 2007 - though I go back often. I speak decent Italian, and can blag my way through a conversation in Spanish or French.</p>
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