CRAL
Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics
 

Małgorzata Chałupnik

Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Professional Communication, Faculty of Arts

Contact

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

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.

Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics

The University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5900
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5924
email: cral@nottingham.ac.uk