Principal Investigator
Professor Elena Semino听 听
Elena Semino is听Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art in the听Department of Linguistics and English Language听at 快播视频, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. She holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Fuzhou in China.听She specializes in health communication, medical humanities,听corpus linguistics, stylistics, and metaphor theory and analysis.听She听has (co-)authored over 110 academic publications, including:听Metaphor in Discourse听(Cambridge University Press, 2008)听and听Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-based Study听(Routledge, 2018). Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Newton Fund and the British Academy. In the periods 2011-14 and 2015-18, she was Head of 快播视频鈥檚 Department of Linguistics and English Language, which is consistently ranked in the top 15 Linguistics Department in the world. She is a Fellow of the RSA and of the UK鈥檚 Academy of Social Sciences.
Co-Investigators
Dr 窜蝉贸蹿颈补听Demj茅n听 听
窜蝉贸蹿颈补 Demj茅n is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London. Her expertise is in discourse and corpus approaches to understanding illness and healthcare. Recent projects have focused on the ideologies of the UK hospice movement and its impact on what counts as a 鈥榞ood death鈥�, the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations, and how听humour听and metaphor can help people cope with cancer. She is author of听Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression听(2015, Bloomsbury), co-author of听Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A corpus-based study听(2018, Routledge), editor of听Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts听(2020, Bloomsbury), and co-editor of听The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language听(2017). Her work has also appeared in the听Journal of Pragmatics,听Applied Linguistics, Metaphor and the Social World, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Health, Psychosis听and the BMJ鈥檚听Medical Humanities听among others.
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Dr Derek Gatherer 听
Derek Gatherer听is听Lecturer in the听Division听of听Biomedical and Life Sciences at 快播视频.听 He specializes in bioinformatics with special reference to听the genomics and evolution of pathogens听and is a member of the working group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. He听has (co-)authored over 90 academic publications听and also听several dozen articles of scientific journalism and popular science.听 His work on the design of peptide synthetic multi-subtype influenza vaccines was listed by听Wired听magazine as the 14th听most important听scientific听breakthrough of 2016.听 His previous research on respiratory viruses was funded by听Rosetrees Trust and he is currently funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to work on parasite and virus genomics.听 He is a Fellow of the Institute for Social Futures, where he is working on how the constraints of human biology will affect our capacity to adapt to a changing planet.
Dr Claire Hardaker 听
Claire Hardaker is a senior lecturer in forensic corpus linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at 快播视频. Hardaker researches online aggression, deception, and manipulation, which covers topics as diverse as disinformation to trolling to romance scams. She also directs the Forensic Linguistics Research Group (FORGE); provides consultancy, research, and expert evidence; undertakes media work, such as documentaries, news interviews, and writing articles for the press; and produces the en clair podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries and more. Hardaker is currently involved in two large projects, both under the remit of CASS 鈥� one investigating the representation of mental health online before and during Covid, and this Quo VaDis project.
Dr Vaclav Brezina 听
Vaclav Brezina is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at 快播视频. He听specialises in corpus linguistics, statistics, and the application of corpus methods in the study of speech and writing, focusing specifically on learner language, collocations, phraseology and vocabulary. His academic contributions include Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the creation of the 4.1 million words Trinity 快播视频 Corpus of spoken L2 English interaction (2019) and the corpus processor #LancsBox (v. 4, 2018).
Professor Alice Deignan 听
Alice Deignan is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Leeds, and from 2017- 2021 was also Head of School.听She is the author of听Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics听(John Benjamins, 2005/ 2008) and co-author of听Figurative Language, Genre and Register听(Cambridge University Press, 2013).听She uses听corpus linguistics and discourse analysis techniques to study specialist language, with particular focus on non-literal language and the language of听different听genres. She led an AHRC funded research project on the language of climate change, studying how expert knowledge is re-worded in educational and popular materials, and articulated by school students. She currently leads a large ESRC funded corpus project听analysing听the language of the transition from primary to secondary school, and how this contrasts with the language encountered by students outside school. Her work听on how language can present barriers to accessing the school curriculum, and how students can be supported to overcome these,听is followed by teachers and other education professionals, and she speaks regularly to audiences of educationalists as well as academics.听
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Professor Robert Geyer
Robert Geyer is a Professor in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at 快播视频. He has been applying complexity thinking to a range of policy areas for nearly two decades. His more recent monographs and edited books on complexity and policy include: (co-authored with Neil Harrison)听Governing Complexity in the 21st Century听(forthcoming); (edited with Paul Cairney)听Handbook on Complexity and Public Policy听(2015); (co-authored with Samir Rihani)听Complexity and Public Policy听(2010) and (co-edited with Jan Bogg)听Complexity, Science and Society,听(2007). He has published in a wide range of journals on complexity and international relations, the EU, UK politics, health policy, education policy, development policy and other areas. In particular, he has published听a number of听articles with Eleanor Brooks on EU health policy and drug regulation and advertising. He has obtained research funding from the ESRC, EPSRC, British Academy, European Science Foundation and others and been a visiting scholar at universities in Norway and the听USA.
Richard Gleave
Richard Gleave is Director of Science Strategy and Development at the UK Health Security Agency, having been the Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer at Public Health England, between 2013 and 2021.听 He has worked in health and healthcare for 30 years as an executive for combined hospital and community provider trusts (including being Chief Executive of the Royal United Hospital Bath), a senior civil servant (where he was the Director of NHS Performance) and as an academic.听 He is a Senior Associate Tutor and a D Phil student at the University of Oxford where his dissertation is about how national public health institutes use evidence to influence public health policy and practice.听 He was previously a lecturer at Newcastle University and a 2007-08 Harkness Fellow attached to Kaiser Permanente and University of California, Berkeley, looking at performance improvement in integrated delivery systems across the US.
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Senior Research Associates
Dr Tara Coltman-Patel 听
Tara Coltman-Patel is a Senior Research Associate within the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences at 快播视频. She specialises in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, health communication and weight discrimination. Her previous research has focused on media representations of weight, with a specific focus on misinformation and discrimination. She has a forthcoming book, (Mis)Representing Obesity in the British Press: Fear, Divisiveness, Shame and Stigma due for publication in 2022. This will explore how language is a vessel through which media misinformation, sensationalism and capitalism contribute towards societies fundamental misunderstanding, disgust and antipathy towards obesity. Alongside research, Tara has worked as a lecturer in Linguistics and as a consultant to the World Obesity Federation, advising and creating content for a global campaign centred around weight stigma.
William Dance 听
William Dance is a Senior Research Associate in the Linguistics and English Language Department at 快播视频, UK.听 His research explores the intersection between social media and deception by investigating the spread of online disinformation.听Dance鈥檚 research combines diachronic, historical approaches to studying language with contemporary social media datasets and uses this to look at the development of disinformation over centuries. His work examines online manipulation and deception, accounting for key historical moments alongside modern developments such as information warfare, computer-mediated communication, and social media. Dance has published on social media users鈥� motivations for sharing disinformation, new methods of听analysing听hostile-state information operations (HSIOs) and constructing multimodal corpora, and has forthcoming works exploring algorithmic disinformation and the spread of online disinformation. Dance has previously worked as a Counter-Disinformation Policy Advisor for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and with the BBC鈥檚 Digital Elections team to help shape policy and inform the public about online manipulation and disinformation.