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• BA (Hons) Linguistics, Edinburgh
• MA Critical Discourse, Culture and Communication, Birmingham
• PhD English, Birmingham
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Birmingham

I have worked as a lecturer at the University 麻豆精选 since 2011. Before that I taught part-time at the university, and at York, Aston and Wolverhampton.

I have taught on a number of modules, including Theories of Language, Discourse & Society, and Language & Politics. I also convene Language Dissertations and Investigations on the department’s BA programmes

I am keen to supervise postgraduate research on relations between language, politics and society, especially (but not exclusively) in recent British history.

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

My research focuses on relations between language and politics. I am especially interested in the ways in which particular ways of using language have been conceived as rhetorical resources for political communicators.

My current research investigates attempts by British political communicators since WWII to informalise or vernacularise their language. I ask why it is that speaking like 'the man or woman on the street' has held such an appeal for so many. To address this question, and in my research more generally, I draw on frameworks from discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and I engage with the work of political scientists and historians.聽

I have acted as external examiner at Manchester, Oxford Brookes and Chester. I am a member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the Network for Oratory and Politics.