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Biography
I am a Research Assistant on the EDIFY research project, using qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse social media use among young people with eating disorders. I have a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, where I used corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to examine national identity construction in the context of Brexit. I have been a Research Assistant on several projects, exploring internationalisation in European Commission policy documents at the University of Warwick, and examining health-related communications at the University of Nottingham.
Teaching Summary
I have previously taught and marked at University of Nottingham, De Monfort University and Birmingham City University on the following modules:
University of Nottingham
Modules: Introduction to Liberal Arts; Academic Community; Language in Society; Sociolinguistics of Work
Dissertation supervision: I have also supervised three MSc students in the School of English.
De Monfort University
Modules: Semantics; Language, Mind and Culture
Birmingham City University
Modules: Foundations of Language; Applied Sociolinguistics
Research Summary
I am currently a Research Assistant on the EDIFY research project, using qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse social media use among young people with eating disorders. I previously was an… read more
Current Research
I am currently a Research Assistant on the EDIFY research project, using qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse social media use among young people with eating disorders. I previously was an RA at the University of Warwick, where I worked with Professor Jo Angouri to analyse internationalisation discourses in European Commission policy documents, focus group and interview data, and European University Alliance mission statements. Before that, I was a Research Assistant on the Coronavirus Discourses project in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, and on an interdisciplinary Avian Influenza project with the Schools of English, Geography and Veterinary Science.