Małgorzata Chałupnik

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  University Park
  Nottingham
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  UK
• work0115 748 4115
• Malgorzata.Chalupnik@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I was educated at the University of Essex (MA) and the University of Nottingham (PhD). During and after my doctoral studies, I worked on a number of funded research projects. This included working on two projects funded by the University's HERMES awards that enabled the establishment of a professional communication research and consultancy centre, Linguistic Profiling for Professionals.

In 2016, I worked as Research Fellow on an ESRC-funded project titled Simulating Medical Talk, analysing healthcare communication in clinical settings. Between 2020-2022, I was a mentor on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with the School of Psychology and creative marketing agency, Together. This project was funded by Innovate UK and AHRC.

I currently carry out research, teaching and research-informed training and consultancy work in the broader area of professional communication, and specifically talk at and around work and health, and language, gender and sexuality. Over the years, I have worked with a number of public, private and third sector organisations, applying findings of linguistics research to inform professional practice.

I am currently a Director of Assessment in the School of English.

Expertise Summary

My areas of expertise include:

• professional communication
• health(care) communication
• discourse analysis
• pragmatics
• linguistic ethnography
• sociolinguistics
• language, gender and sexuality

Teaching Summary

I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate (on-site and distance learning) linguistics modules in the School. I supervise PhD theses and MA dissertations in the broad areas of… read more

Research Summary

I currently work on a range of projects in professional communication and language, gender and sexuality, focusing on: leadership and collaboration practices at work (also specifically in healthcare… read more

Recent Publications

• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and BROOKES, G., 2025. From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland. In: BOGETIĆ, K., ed., Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press.)
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2025. Masculinity, veganism and discursive struggle on Twitter. In: Discourses of Digital Masculinities Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2024. Leadership and collaboration in workplace discourse: From field to application Palgrave Macmillan.
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., MACKENZIE, J., MULLANY, L. and VILAR-LLUCH, S., 2024. “Can women have it all?” Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom Critical Discourse Studies. 1-19

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I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate (on-site and distance learning) linguistics modules in the School. I supervise PhD theses and MA dissertations in the broad areas of professional communication and language, gender and sexuality.

Undergraduate modules

ENGL1002 Studying Language (Level 1) - lectures

ENGL1008 Academic Community (Level 1) - lectures and tutorials

ENGL2026 Language in Society (Level 2) - lectures and seminars

ENGL3094 Language and Feminism (Level 3) - convenorship, lectures and seminars

ENGL3002 English Dissertation: Full year (Level 3)

ENGL3029 English Dissertation: Spring Semester only (Level 3)

Postgraduate (on-site)

ENGL4031 Dissertation - supervision

ENGL4094 Intercultural Communication - seminars

ENGL4096 Communication and Entrepreneurship Research Project - supervision

Postgraduate (distance learning)

AE216 Core Concepts in Professional Communication

AE223 Language and Gender in Professional Communication

AE239 Digital Professional Communication

AE241 Leadership Communication

AE218 Culture and Communication

Current Research

I currently work on a range of projects in professional communication and language, gender and sexuality, focusing on: leadership and collaboration practices at work (also specifically in healthcare settings), communication of public health information, representation and discourses around veganism, and representation of gender, particularly in relation to professional life.

Past Research

I have been carrying out professional communication research for over 10 years now.

I worked on two University-funded projects on leadership communication. The Linguistic Profiling projects involved researching the communicative practices of business leaders working in a wide range of professional settings, including public, private and third sector organisations. The projects were instrumental in establishing a professional communication research and consultancy centre, Linguistic Profiling for Professionals.

In 2016, I worked on an ESRC-funded project titled Simulating Medical Talk, investigating the communicative aspects of contemporary clinical examinations and the training of postgraduate doctors.

Between 2020-2022, I worked on an Innovate UK and AHRC-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with the School of Psychology and creative marketing agency, Together. This was an interdisciplinary project aimed at informing professional practice.

My current research builds on this work carried out in the areas of professional and healthcare communication.

• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and BROOKES, G., 2025. From streets to Sejm: Discourses of feminist protest and political change in Poland. In: BOGETIĆ, K., ed., Language, Gender and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press.)
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2025. Masculinity, veganism and discursive struggle on Twitter. In: Discourses of Digital Masculinities Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2024. Leadership and collaboration in workplace discourse: From field to application Palgrave Macmillan.
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., MACKENZIE, J., MULLANY, L. and VILAR-LLUCH, S., 2024. “Can women have it all?” Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom Critical Discourse Studies. 1-19
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2024. Hard to swallow? A critical animal studies perspective on the discursive recontextualization of the reality of dairy farming Discourse & Communication.
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2023. Ink not mink: Discourses of Masculinity in Animal Rights Campaigns. In: MCGLASHAN, M. and MERCER, J., eds., Toxic Masculinity: Men, Meaning, and Digital Media Routledge.
• ATKINS, S. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2023. A Multimodal Linguistic Analysis of Gaze and Active Listenership in Emergency Department Team Interactions. In: TSUCHIYA, K., COFFEY, F. and NAKAMURA, K., eds., Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research: Visualizing Interactions for Resilient Healthcare in the UK and Japan Bloomsbury. 47–64
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., eds., 2023. Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health Palgrave Macmillan.
• PUTLAND, E., CHAŁUPNIK, M. and BROOKES, G., 2023. New men? The medicalisation of men’s bodies on the Numan website. In: BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., eds., Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health Palgrave Macmillan. 335–368
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2023. Introduction. In: BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., eds., Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health Palgrave Macmillan. 1–23
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2022. Storying selves and others at work: Story ownership, tellership and functions of narratives in a workplace domain Narrative Inquiry. 32(1), 66 - 85
• SUN, X. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2022. Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19 Discourse & Society. 33(5), 650-670
• BROOKES, G. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2022. Militant, annoying and sexy: A corpus-based study of representations of vegans in the British press Critical Discourse Studies.
• JONES, L., CHAŁUPNIK, M., MACKENZIE, J. and MULLANY, L., 2022. 'STFU and start listening to how scared we are': Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen Discourse, Context & Media. 47, 100596
• BRU GARCIA, S., CHAŁUPNIK, M., IRVING, K. and HASELGROVE, M,, 2022. Increasing Condom Use and STI Testing: Creating a Behaviourally Informed Sexual Healthcare Campaign Using the COM-B Model of Behaviour Change Behavioral Sciences. 12(4), 108
• TSUCHIYA, K., COFFEY, F., NAKAMURA, K., MACKENZIE, A., ATKINS, S., CHAŁUPNIK, M., WHITFIELD, A., SAKAI, T., TIMMONS, S., ABE, T., SAITOH, T., TANEICHI, A., VERNON, M., CRUNDALL, D. and FUYUNO, M., 2022. Action request episodes in trauma team interactions in Japan and the UK - A multimodal analysis of joint actions in medical simulation Journal of Pragmatics. 194, 101-118
• BROOKES, GAVIN and CHAŁUPNIK, MAŁGORZATA, 2022. ‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community Discourse, Context & Media. 49, 100640
• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and BROOKES, G., 2022. Discursive acts of resistance: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of All-Poland Women’s Strike’s social media Gender and Language. 16(3), 308–333
• ATKINS, S. and CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2021. Pragmatics: Leadership and team communication in emergency medicine training. In: BROOKES, G. and HUNT, D., eds., Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches Palgrave Macmillan. 271-299
• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and BROOKES, G., 2021. ‘You said, we did’: a corpus-based analysis of marketising discourse in healthcare websites Text & Talk. 41(5-6), 643-666
• TSUCHIYA, K., COFFEY, F., MACKENZIE, A., ATKINS, S., CHAŁUPNIK, M., TIMMONS, S., WHITFIELD, A., VERNON, M. and CRUNDALL, D., 2021. Framing emergency care interactions: a multimodal analysis of team leaders’ making requests using eye-tracking glasses. Communication and Medicine. 17(1), 47–63
• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and ATKINS, S., 2020. “Everyone happy with what their role is?”: A pragmalinguistic evaluation of leadership practices in emergency medicine training Journal of Pragmatics. 160, 80-96
• CHAŁUPNIK, M. and ATKINS, S., 2020. Team interaction in healthcare settings: Leadership, rapport-building and clinical outcomes in ad hoc medical teams. In: ARCHER, D, GRAINGER, K. and JAGODZIŃSKI, P., eds., Politeness in Professional Settings John Benjamins Publishing. 55-83
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., CHRISTIE, C. and MULLANY, L., 2017. (Im)politeness and gender. In: CULPEPER, JONATHAN, HAUGH, MICHAEL and KÁDÁR, DÁNIEL Z., eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness Palgrave Macmillan. 517-537
• CHAŁUPNIK, M., 2011. Realisation of requests and criticisms in Polish and British English Working With English: Journal of Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama. 33-45