Dr. Martin Edwardes

Biography

Joining King’s as a Visiting Lecturer in 2008, Martin Edwardes has a career spanning over 20 years in the industry as a Systems Consultant, which concluded in 2002 when he began his PhD. In 2006, Martin became a Communications Liaison at City London Academy Bermondsey, a role he continued until 2011, and officially retired in 2018 while continuing to teach at KCL as a Visiting Lecturer, covering a range of modules as part of the BA English Language and Linguistics degree. He has contributed significantly to the field, producing a weekly bulletin for the Evolutionary Anthropology Online Research Cluster and publishing two books: 'Origins of Grammar: An Anthropological Perspective' in 2010 and 'Origins of Selfhood: An Anthropological Perspective' in 2019 by UCL Press. His research interests primarily focus on the origins of language and the socio-cultural aspects surrounding it, particularly the interplay between language and selfhood. He supervises several modules including 'Origins of Language' and 'Language Construction' at KCL. Martin is also engaged with artificial languages and has been involved in the production of conlangs as part of his projects at KCL.

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