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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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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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#LancsBox X: Innovation in corpus linguistics
CASS has always been associated with innovation in corpus linguistics. Innovation comes in different forms and guises such as the creation new corpora and tools as well as novel applications of corpus methods in a wide range of areas of social and linguistic research. With increasing demands on the sophistication of corpus linguistic analyses comes…
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Celebrating the Written BNC2014: Lancaster Castle event
On 19 November 2021, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) organised an event to celebrate the launch of the Written British National Corpus 2014 (BNC2024). The event was live-streamed from a very special location: the medieval Lancaster Castle. There were about 20 participants on the site and more than 1,200 participants…
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Talking Health Online
On 21 October 2021, the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science hosted a webinar entitled, “Talking Health Online: Why it matters and what linguistics can contribute”, as part of a series of events organised by the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH). The IC4CH is an initiative that brings together language…
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Blamed, shamed and at-risk: How have press representations of obesity responded to the COVID-19 pandemic?
There’s no question that all of us within society have been impacted in one way or another by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, it’s also the case that the health and wellbeing of certain groups have been particularly affected. A review of evidence on the disparities in the risks and outcomes of COVID-19 carried out…
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Tara Coltman-Patel – Introductory Blog
My name is Tara Coltman-Patel and I am so excited to be a new member of CASS. I am working as one of the Senior Research Associates on the ESRC-funded Quo VaDis project: Questioning Vaccination Discourse: A Corpus-Based Study project, which explores discussions about vaccinations in UK parliamentary debates, UK national newspapers and on the…
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British Muslims Caught Amidst FOGs – A Discourse Analysis of Religious Advice and Authority
By Usman Maravia In this blog entry, I will provide an overview of my latest article which explores the writing style of Islamic advice texts on COVID-19. The issues that were addressed in these advice texts were related to the topic of mosque closures, funerary rites, fasting during Ramadan, and suspending Friday and daily prayers…
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‘Face masks’ and ‘face coverings’ in the UK press during the Covid-19 pandemic: Scottish vs. national newspapers
Carmen Dayrell, Isobelle Clarke and Elena Semino (Lancaster University) 1 Introduction Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of face masks or face coverings as a means of reducing the transmission of the virus has been a major area of debate in many countries around the world. In the UK specifically, the first…
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.