CV

PhD Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

• Provisional title "Navigating Meaning Spaces: A Contextualist Perspective on Conceptual Engineering". Supervised by Prof. Kasia Jaszczolt.

Research Master of Arts, Linguistics

• ResMa thesis titled "Nullius In Verba: Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus", supervised by Lauren Fonteyn and Janet Connor. Achieved Cum Laude Honors.

BA Linguistics

• BA thesis titled "Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English", supervised by David Willis. Achieved First Class Honours.

Collaborative Conceptual Engineering; Philosophy and Linguistics

• Haket, N. (2024). Collaborative Conceptual Engineering: Philosophy and Linguistics. In Conceptual Engineering: Methodological and Metaphilosophical Issues (P. Stalmaszczyk, eds). https://doi.org/10.30965/9783969753026_012

Could this be next for corpus linguistics?

• Fonteyn, L., Manjavacas, E., Haket, N., Dorst, A., Kruijt, E. (2024). Could this be next for corpus linguistics? Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0142

Nullius In Verba; Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus

• Haket, N. (2023). Nullius In Verba: Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 15, 155–195.

Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English

• Haket, N. (2021). Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English. Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Great Britain, 1(1), 1–32.

• TAL Research Area Workshops (RAW) funding to organize a student-led workshop

• Cambridge Trust International Scholarship for full PhD funding

• Sufian Passamano Prize for Linguistics
• Elected to a Bateman scholarship for attaining a First-Class Honours classification every year of my bachelor’s degree

Student Assistant

• Prepare and run workshop materials
• Collate materials during the workshop
• Communicate with participants and contributors

Research Assistant

• Train NLP models on historical data
• Focus on the Royal Society Corpus

Researcher

• Provide linguistic input to philosophical domains
• Conduct independent research
• Prepare presentations

Translator

• Translate the dictionary into English for publication

"The Forgotten Pragmatic Aspect of Conceptual Engineering" at the 6th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA). USF St Petersburg

"Why Making Words Better Is Not That Simple- Conceptual Engineering and Distributional Semantics" at The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS), University of Cambridge

"Why Making Words Better Is Not That Simple- Conceptual Engineering and Distributional Semantics (Invited)" at Pre-Conference Workshop for the 4th Experimental Philosophy Conference on Large Language Models for Experimental Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University.

"Intra and Inter-Word Variation in Conceptual Engineering (Invited)" at Conceptual Engineering Network (CEN) Lecture. Watch lecture here.

"Conceptual Engineering- Fixing the Concept of NOW in Russian" at Workshop on Abstract Concepts, Perception, and Language- What We Think and How We Say It, University of Cambridge

"Empirical Dilemmas in Conceptual Engineering- Words and Beyond (Invited)" at Pre-Conference Workshop for the 3rd European Experimental Philosophy Conference on The Dawn of Experimental Conceptual Engineering at UTH Zurich.

"Nullius in Verba - Conceptual Engineering and the Royal Society Corpus" at 18th International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Conference in Brussels.

"Collaborative Conceptual Engineering" at the 8th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics at the University of Lodz.

"Conceptual Engineering and Propositions- An Argument for Functional Dynamic Propositions (Invited)" at the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy Workgroup (SPP) Meeting at the University of Cambridge.

Dawn Supercomputer Pioneer Project

• Pioneer project member in the Dawn Supercomputer Initiative at the University of Cambridge’s Research Computing Service.

Undergraduate Supervisor

• History and Varieties of English
• Structures and Meanings
• Semantics and Pragmatics

Lecturer

• Semantics and Pragmatics (Li10) Michaelmas 2025

Dissertation Supervisor

• Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language Undergraduate dissertation supervisor

Communications Assistant Editor

• 2024-present
• An open-access online journal publishing high-quality peer-reviewed language research that addresses issues concerning languages, cultures, and societies in accessible and non-technical language. We promote engagement with policymakers, journalists, and stakeholders in education, health, business, and elsewhere.

Organiser of the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy Workgroup

• 2022-present
• A bi-weekly Cambridge University meeting in which authors of recently published papers are invited to discuss their work. My role includes selecting papers for discussion, contacting authors to attend, moderating meetings, and communicating with the rest of the university.

Editor of the Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics Journal

• 2022-present
• This journal publishes the work of Cambridge-affiliated linguistics researchers on an annual basis. My role includes communicating with the authors and using Latex to format and publish the papers.

Presentation at the AI Café

• Presentation at the AI Café organised by CL Accelerate Science to exemplify work that can be done with LLMs, July 2024

ANNOTATED. Episode 01 - Nina Haket

• Podcast recording for the Blog of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, explaining my research and advising current undergraduate students. Find episode here

In Search of a Language Utopia

• Magazine article written in *The Low Countries*, an academic magazine aiming to target all aspects of language and culture. Lichtsteiner, L., & Haket, N. (2021b). In Search of a Language Utopia. The Low Countries, 4(4).

Organiser, 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025)

• XPrag will be held at the University of Cambridge, from September 17th to September 19th, 2025.
• The University of Cambridge
• September 2025

Abstract Concepts, Perception, and Language - What We Think and How We Say It Workshop

• Co-organiser of this interdisciplinary workshop that brought together early-stage researchers from multiple countries.
• The University of Cambridge
• April 2024

LATEX Workshop

• Co-organiser of a workshop to teach and exemplify the use of LATEX in academia, focussing on linguistics contexts
• Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Department, University of Cambridge
• January 2023

Referee

• Theoria - An International Journal for Theory, History, and Foundations of Science