Watson, Janet C. E.: - Janet Watson studied at the University of Exeter and at SOAS, London. She has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham, and Salford and has held visiting posts at the Universi ties of Heidelberg (2003-2004) and Oslo (2004-2005). She took up the Leadership Chair for Language at Leeds at the University of Leeds in 2013, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2013. Since 2019, she has directed the Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems (CELCE). She is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews and a Visiting Professor at Sultan Qaboos University. Her current research areas are on Modern South Arabian and the language-nature relationship.