University of Leicester

Faculty Member, Media and Communication

Lecturer in Media and Communication

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Research Interests

    * Climate change communication
    * Public discourses on infectious diseases
    * E-health (online social support)
    * Internet research methods
    * Mixed methods in social research

My current research draws on methods of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis to study linguistic framing of popular and policy responses to developments in science, technology and medicine.

My methodological expertise lies in the use of mixed methods, drawing on text analysis and advances in qualitative computing. I have used interviews, focus groups, document analysis, as well as data collected from blogs and RSS feeds to study the dynamics of science- and medicine- related debates.

I am developing projects looking at health communication practices in the new media landscape. This research explores the role of online discussion groups in the management of chronic illness.

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