A new steering committee came into office during the 2022 Mainz conference.
Steering committee members typically serve on the committee for 6 years and can be nominated for another 6 years. The members together should represent not only the diversity of our field, but ideally also all major regions that serve as typical Methods "academic homes". The committee elects a chair from among the long(er)-serving members. The host of the previous conference(s) are advisory members.
The committee advises conference hosts and accepts pitches of those willing to host Methods in the future.
The current steering committee members are (in alphabetical order):
| Name | website | affiliation | research interests |
| Stefan Dollinger | link | UBC & UVic, Canada |
(Canadian, US, World) Englishes; (Austrian) German; Chinook Jargon
Historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, lexicography & lexicology, linguistic attitudes
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| Mercedes Durham | link | Cardiff University, UK | Language Variation and Change; Language attitudes; Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence; Scots and Welsh English; English as a lingua franca |
| Keiko Hirano | link | University of Kitakyushu, Japan | Language variation and change in English |
| Rafael Orozco | link | Louisiana State University, USA | Sociolinguistics, Colombian Spanish, Spanish in the United States, Caribbean Spanish, language contact, forensic linguistics, & multilingualism |
| Susanne Wagner (chair) | link | JGU Mainz, Germany | Varieties of English world-wide; Morphosyntactic variation; Language attitudes (focus on L2 speakers) and linguistic bias; EMI in HE |
| Martijn Wieling | link | University of Groningen, The Netherlands | Dialectometry; Quantitative techniques for investigating language variation; Dutch/Low Saxon dialectology; Articulography; Speech technology |
| Michol Hoffman | link | York University, Canada | Language Variation and Change; sociolinguistics; ethnicity; multilingualism and language contact; language attitudes; sociophonetics; Canadian English; Spanish (especially in Canada). |
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