About
BIO
Dr Emma McClaughlin is a Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics at The University of Nottingham. With a focus on health inequalities and health literacies, her recent research has examined menstrual health discourses, coronavirus public messaging, and avian influenza biosecurity communication. This work aims to inform evidence-based interventions to improve health communications.
Emma's main research interests lie in exploring health communication, human-animal relationships, animal ethics, and environmental issues but she is interested using a linguistic approach to examine perceptions surrounding a range of social, cultural or political issues. Her previous research has involved corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, health communication, history, human-animal studies, and digital humanities.
QUALIFICATIONS
Emma has a BA (English Language & Communication) from the University of Hertfordshire, an MSc (Neuroscience, Language & Communication) from University College London, and a PhD from Lancaster University. Her thesis: The Discursive Representation of British Wildlife in The Times Newspaper, 1785–2005 is available here.
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