{"id":23,"date":"2021-01-17T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/vaccination-discourse\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-10-05T07:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:05:48","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/vaccination-discourse\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Principal Investigator<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Professor Elena Semino\u00a0 \u00a0 Elena Semino is <\/span>Professor of Linguistics and Verbal Art in the <\/span>Department of Linguistics and English Language<\/span> at Lancaster University, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science<\/span>. She holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Fuzhou in China. <\/span>She specializes in health communication, medical humanities, <\/span>corpus linguistics, stylistics, and metaphor theory and analysis.<\/span> <\/span>She <\/span>has (co-)authored over 110 academic publications, including:<\/span> <\/em>Metaphor in Discourse<\/em> <\/span>(Cambridge University Press, 2008)<\/span> and <\/span>Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-based ذكذكتسئµ<\/em> <\/span>(Routledge, 2018). Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Newton Fund and the British Academy. In the periods 2011-14 and 2015-18, she was Head of Lancaster University\u2019s Department of Linguistics and English Language, which is consistently ranked in the top 15 Linguistics Department in the world. She is a Fellow of the RSA and of the UK\u2019s Academy of Social Sciences.<\/span><\/p> View Elena Semino’s staff page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Co-Investigators<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Dr Zs\u00f3fia<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Demj\u00e9n\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span> Zs\u00f3fia Demj\u00e9n is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London. Her expertise is in discourse and corpus approaches to understanding illness and healthcare. Recent projects have focused on the ideologies of the UK hospice movement and its impact on what counts as a \u2018good death\u2019, the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations, and how\u00a0<\/span>humour<\/span>\u00a0and metaphor can help people cope with cancer. She is author of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(2015, Bloomsbury), co-author of\u00a0<\/span>Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A corpus-based study<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(2018, Routledge), editor of\u00a0<\/span>Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(2020, Bloomsbury), and co-editor of\u00a0<\/span>The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(2017). Her work has also appeared in the\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Pragmatics<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Applied Linguistics, Metaphor and the Social World, Discourse Studies, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Health, Psychosis<\/span>\u00a0and the BMJ\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Medical Humanities<\/span>\u00a0among others.<\/span><\/p> View Zs\u00f3fia Demj\u00e9n’s staff page<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Dr Derek Gatherer \u00a0 Derek Gatherer<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/span>Lecturer in the\u00a0<\/span>D<\/span>ivision\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>Biomedical and Life Sciences at Lancaster University.\u00a0 He specializes in bioinformatics with special reference to\u00a0<\/span>the genomics and evolution of pathogens<\/span>\u00a0and is a member of the working group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. H<\/span>e\u00a0<\/span>has (co-)authored over 90 academic publications\u00a0<\/span>and also<\/span>\u00a0several dozen articles of scientific journalism and popular science.\u00a0 His work on the design of peptide synthetic multi-subtype influenza vaccines was listed by\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Wired<\/span>\u00a0magazine as the 14<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>most important\u00a0<\/span>scientific\u00a0<\/span>breakthrough of 2016<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 His previous research on respiratory viruses was funded by\u00a0<\/span>Rosetrees<\/span> Trust and he is currently funded by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to work on parasite and virus genomics.\u00a0 He is a Fellow of the Institute for Social Futures, where he is working on how the constraints of human biology will affect our capacity to adapt to a changing planet.<\/span><\/p> View Derek Gatherer’s staff page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Dr Claire Hardaker \u00a0 Claire Hardaker is a senior lecturer in forensic corpus linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. Hardaker researches online aggression, deception, and manipulation, which covers topics as diverse as disinformation to trolling to romance scams. She also directs the Forensic Linguistics Research Group (FORGE); provides consultancy, research, and expert evidence; undertakes media work, such as documentaries, news interviews, and writing articles for the press; and produces the en clair podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries and more. Hardaker is currently involved in two large projects, both under the remit of CASS \u2013 one investigating the representation of mental health online before and during Covid, and this Quo VaDis project.<\/p> View Claire Hardaker’s staff page<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Dr Vaclav Brezina \u00a0 Vaclav Brezina is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. He\u00a0<\/span><\/span>specialises<\/span><\/span>
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