My main research interests are in applying linguistics in the medical humanities. In particular, my interests have primarily centred on the application of corpus linguistic methodologies to examine public discourses around health in the UK. To date, my research has examined public discourses around schizophrenia, and, in 2023, I published my prize-winning research as a monograph entitled Representing Schizophrenia, A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage. Other areas of expertise include critical discourse analysis, (literary) stylistics and forensic linguistics.

I am currently a work package lead on a €3 million project entitled Clarus: building and preventing bias in digital forensic examination, interorganisational communication and interaction, which involves 11 partner institutions and is funded by Horizon Europe. I am responsible for one of the projects key deliverables, to produce an interactive online lexicon to improve objectivity, neutrality and fairness in in the pursuit of safer justice outcomes in terrorism and serious crime exploiting digital technologies.

In my independent research, I am becoming increasingly interested in how public discourses are produced, reproduced and contested in digital media. One of my ongoing research projects examines public discourses around borderline personality disorder online. I am also involved in ongoing research into public responses to assisted dying in Scotland.

Affiliations

I am on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Language, Discourse and Mental Health series published by the University of Exeter Press.

I am deputy director of the STELLA lab, a computer laboratory at Glasgow University dedicated to English language studies.

I am also core member of the Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC).

In 2021, I was involved in the Spoken Learner Corpus Project, a collaboration between Lancaster University and Trinity College London.

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• You, Zijin
  Framing design for the marginalised voice of “female boxers” in China

Pre-Honours

I am the convenor of the Level 1 course in English Language & Linguistics. I also run the Language, Power and Authority strand of the 1A course Language, Meaning and Power in Semester 1.

Honours

I am the convenor of the Honours course Reading with Style (ENGLANG4055).

I am the convenor of Corpus Linguistics (ENGLANG4023) at Honours

PGT

I am the convenor of Corpus Linguistics (PGT) (ENGLANG5094) at PGT level.

I lecture on Culture and English Language Teaching (ENGLANG4033) in Semester 2.