Professor Roland Sussex

Roland (Roly) Sussex has been Professor of Applied Language Studies at the University of Queensland since 1989. Before that he taught Linguistics and Russian at the University of Reading (UK) and Monash University in Melbourne, and was the foundation professor of Russian at the University of Melbourne from 1977 to 1989.

He is the current Chair of the Library Board of Queensland, and a visiting Professor at the Xinjiang Normal University in China.

His current research is located in the triangle between language, culture and society, and technology. He is co-chief investigator in the PainLang Research Group at the University of Queensland, which is investigating the use of language in the diagnosis, treatment and management of pain (http://www.uq.edu.au/painlang/).

His most recent major publication is The Slavic languages with Paul Cubberley, Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Roly Sussex writes a weekly column on language for the Brisbane Courier-Mail, and has been broadcasting to Queensland on ABC radio since 1997, and more recently to South Australia and the Northern Territory.

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