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Corpus Linguistics and Law: Reflections of a Legal Scholar and recent Master’s Graduate from Lancaster University
Written by Adrian Hemler, University of Konstanz, Germany Just a couple of months ago, I found myself in a curious situation: Having studied Corpus Linguistics (MA) remotely and part-time at Lancaster University’s Linguistics Department for two years, I visited the campus for the first time for an occasion that usually means farewell for most other…
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Gaining Momentum: A Scholar’s Journey Through Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster
Hanna Atcheson is a lecturer at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. She visited CASS (The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science) as a visiting scholar in October and November 2024. In this blogpost, Hanna takes us through the milestones of her academic path, offering insights into how her work has been inspired by…
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Open Advanced Methods Research Group
📅 Fortnightly Wednesdays 12-1pm UK time Everybody is welcome. More info and registration: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advanced-methods-research-group/
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Introductory Blog – Yufeng Liu ( Kiki )
Hello! My name is Yufeng Liu, also known as Kiki, and I have recently joined the CASS team as a Senior Research Associate on the 4D PICTURE project (https://4dpicture.eu/). This project, funded by the EU Horizon with a budget of nine million euros across sixteen partners, aims to transform health care decision-making in oncology by…
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Introductory Blog – Dr Alexandra Krendel
Hello! My name is Alexandra Krendel and I have joined the CASS team as a Senior Research Associate on the Future of Human Reproduction project. This project involves investigating the cultural, ethical, legal and social implications of technological developments in human reproduction such as ectogenesis (pregnancy outside of the womb), in-vitro gametogenesis (creating egg/sperm cells…
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CHIMED-3: The third International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse
Photo credit: Niall Curry On two (mostly) sunny May days last week, CHIMED-3, the third International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse was held at the beautiful and very apt location of Mary Ward House, in London. Built in 1898, the building has housed a great many initiatives to support education, community, health, wellbeing and the arts,…
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Mentoring Social Science Researchers in Corpus Methods and Critical Discourse Analysis: Final Symposium at Keele University
Yuze Sha, with Luke Collins On 25th January, members of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science joined colleagues from across universities in the North West to participate in a Symposium, celebrating the work of postgraduate students getting to learn how to use methods from corpus linguistics in their existing research. In September…
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Introductory Blog – Emma Putland
My name is Emma Putland and I’m really excited to have recently joined the team here at CASS. More specifically, I’m the Senior Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Public Discourses of Dementia Project, led by Dr Gavin Brookes. This project recognises the important role that language and imagery play in perpetuating, but also resisting, stigmatising…
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Introductory Blog – Jane Demmen
I’ve recently joined the CASS team as a Senior Research Associate investigating health(care) communication using corpus linguistic methods. My main focus will be on exploring the ways people talk about their experiences of pain, particularly chronic pain (lasting for over 3 months). I’m delighted to be involved in this interesting and important research area, alongside…
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Representation of the Sea in the UK Press: Public Awareness of the Oceans
Carmen Dayrell, Basil Germond (Lancaster University) and Celine Germond-Duret (Liverpool John Moores University) Introduction 5th November 2021 was COP26’s Ocean Action Day. The UK Presidency of the conference stressed the need “to take ambitious steps towards ocean health and resilience” in order to contribute to “our fight against climate change”. Ocean sustainability is contingent to…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.