Research Interests

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

Current Teaching

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

Additional Information

PhD Supervision Interests

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