I am currently interested in two main research areas:
- Language and digitally mediated politics, and particularly political resistance
- Language policy and the politics of language
I am particularly interested in supervising students in the areas of online political resistance, critical discourse analysis and language policy, also more broadly in the areas related to my other research interests (see 'Research Interests' on my staff profile). I am currently supervising or co-supervising students working on: Anti-feminist discourse in online forums; Accounts of sexual harassment among sex-workers; Language policy and ideologies in Pakistan; Attitudes towards migrants on Twitter in Saudi Arabia; Persuasion and manipulation in TED talks
My research to date has been in the following areas:
- Language Policy
- Minority Languages
- Scots
- Discursive representations of minority languages
- Discourse sociolinguistics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Academic writing
- Language and gender
- Cartoons, fairy stories and sexist stereotypes
- Dialect speech (re)presentation in fiction and non-fiction
- Dialect and non-standard orthography
- Political resistance and new media
In 2022-23 I am contributing to teaching on the following modules:
Undergraduate
- LING102 - English Language Part I
- LING103 - Linguistics Part I
- GEN.101 - Gender Studies Part I
- LING204 - Discourse Analysis: Looking at Language in Use
- LING232 - Understanding Media
Postgraduate
- LING440 - Critical Discourse Studies