Dr Anna Cermakova is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Before joining the DIALLS project, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham working on GLARE project – Exploring Gender in Children’s Literature from a Cognitive Corpus Stylistic Perspective. Anna is a corpus linguist, she has completed her PhD in corpus linguistics at Charles University (Prague) and her main research interests are in the language of children’s literature, contrastive linguistics and more generally, contextual approaches to meaning. For DIALLS, Anna is working primarily on WP3 and WP5, which focus on data collection of how children talk and create meaning and analysis thereof.