Tristan Emerson

Contact

• workUniversity Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Tristan.Emerson2@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am currently employed as a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, working on the VAX-TRUST project to develop an intervention that will help healthcare professionals to consult with vaccine hesitant individuals.

I hold an MA and PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham; my ERDF funded PhD was undertaken as a member of Linguistic Profiling for Professionals (LiPP) in the School of English, and examined how clinicians enact their professional identities in consultations with patients - how they convey their professional expertise and navigate conversational asymmetries.

During my PhD, as a member of LiPP, I worked with a number of businesses and public sector health organizations to deliver academic linguistic resources to 'real world' application.

Since the completion of my PhD, I have worked on a variety of research projects based around language and healthcare:

• 'Communicating With Generation Z': a Research England funded examination of two interventions made by the UK Government to vulnerable teenagers during the Covid-19 pandemic. https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/communicating-with-generation-z
• 'Signs of the Times': a British Academy funded semiotic analysis of businesses messaging to their customers during two periods of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• PHOSP-HSR: an NIHR funded qualitative work package within the national PHOSP-COVID clinical study, that sought to understand how Covid-19 care pathways had been developed by practitioners during the pandemic and how patients had experienced those pathways. https://www.phosp.org/ https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR202708
• 'Tackling Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care with Open-Label Placebos': a pilot study funded by the Leicester Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, that seeks to address antibiotic overuse in primary care contexts by examining the potential use of open-label placebos as substitution treatments.

Expertise Summary

• Healthcare communication
• Professional communication
• Corpus linguistics
• Discourse analysis
• Pragmatics
• Ethnography
• Qualitative research methods in healthcare