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Dr Derek Gatherer

Lecturer

Derek Gatherer

Lancaster University

Furness Building

LA1 4YG

Lancaster

Tel: +44 1524 592900

Research overview

Ranked globally and nationally in top 0.2% for reads on The Conversation (UK 36th out of 23,022; globally 122nd out of 90,953).

Now on editorial board of Scientific Data.

My Erdös number is 5.

Google Scholar metrics for end-2023:

h-index 40; g-index 83; publication years 38; cites: 6856; cites for most-cited paper 732; mean cites/paper 38; mean cites/year 187; papers >500 cites 2; papers >250 cites 6; papers >100 cites 20; papers >10 cites/year 13.

PhD supervision

Interested in finding a student who would use corpus linguistic techniques to analyse past pandemic responses, e.g. to 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics

Profile

Currently active projects:

  1. Tempo & mode in the evolution of RNA viruses.  PhD student Hanouf Alhamdan funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  2. Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy, with Prof Elena Semino (Lancaster) and others.  Funded by the Economic & Social Research Council: grant ref. ES/V000926/1
  3. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: Herpesvirales working group.

Research Interests

  1. Vaccine hesitancy (esp. 19th century)
  2. RNA virus evolution
  3. BioFutures
  4. Taxonomy of Herpesvirales
  5. Societal response to the English Sweat (15th-16th century)

External Roles

  1. Fellow, Institute for Social Futures
  2. Herpesvirales Working Group, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

Current Teaching

Lent Term 2024:  BIOL243 Medical Microbiology

Research Grants

Economic & Social Research Council:  Corpus linguistic analysis of discourse surrounding vaccine hesitancy (ES/V000926/1)

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