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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no-lockout-for-university-of-sheffield-staff?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=0fb6d249-e140-44b9-861f-d776424b0778
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US engaging in ‘extreme rightwing tropes’ reminiscent of 1930s, British MPs warn
House of Commons calls on Keir Starmer to condemn Donald Trump’s ‘interference’ in European politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/11/us-extreme-rightwing-tropes-1930s-british-mps-donald-trump-keir-starmer
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Interesting analysis:
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-logic-of-destruction?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Tom Bartlett and I had a fantastic discussion with Hayley Walker in the latest episode of the Language and Power Podcast: 'COP 30, mega-cops, and meaningful participation'.
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S5 Episode 7: COP 30, mega-cops, and meaningful participation with Hayley Walker — Language/Power Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Haley Walker from the Department of International Negotiation and Conflict Management, IÉSEG School of Management (Lille). We discuss the outcomes of COP30, hel...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l-6k8sx-nmpwh-rppkr-n2cn8-9x7nl
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New episode out now! COP 30, mega-cops, and meaningful participation with Hayley Walker
languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...
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S5 Episode 7: COP 30, mega-cops, and meaningful participation with Hayley Walker — Language/Power Podcast
In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Haley Walker from the Department of International Negotiation and Conflict Management, IÉSEG School of Management (Lille). We discuss the outcomes of COP30, hel...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l-6k8sx-nmpwh-rppkr-n2cn8-9x7nl
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Discourse Academy
23 days ago
Although there are still a few weeks until the booking deadline, places are being taken up quickly for 'How to use critical discourse analysis in your research' - only 7 left!!!
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy
Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...
https://www.discourseacademy.org/event-details/how-to-use-critical-discourse-analysis-in-your-research
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Dr Awni Etaywe
about 1 month ago
Relational dynamics in terrorist incitement - Language in the negotiation of bonds and obligations. Read my article in The Conversation Australia + NZ:
doi.org/10.64628/AA....
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Violent extremists wield words as weapons. New study reveals 6 tactics they use
The language and rhetoric of extremists helps fuel brutal, often deadly, violence. Spotting the strategies can help protect people from radicalisation.
https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.sdmpgwkrt
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Discourse Academy
about 1 month ago
Day 2 - Positive discourse analysis - Genre & social practices - [Optional] Project presentations & feedback
#qualitativeresearch
#discourse
#CDA
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy
Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...
https://www.discourseacademy.org/event-details/how-to-use-critical-discourse-analysis-in-your-research
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Discourse Academy
about 1 month ago
Day 1 - Understanding your research project - Corpus analysis for CDA - Discourse & context - integrating CDA theories of discourse with your work - Analysing text & discourse: social actors, intertextuality, meaning relations, metaphor
#discourse
#CDA
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research | Discourse Academy
Learn how to apply key CDA theories, concepts and methods to your research project. Sessions on key ideas in CDA and how to apply them to your work. Group discussion and advice tailored to your resear...
https://www.discourseacademy.org/event-details/how-to-use-critical-discourse-analysis-in-your-research
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Something to look forward to in January...
#cda
#PhD
#discourse
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about 1 month ago
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Discourse Academy
about 1 month ago
Two-day workshop on CDA - join us in Sheffield!
www.discourseacademy.org/post/how-to-...
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How to use critical discourse analysis in your research
Booking now open!We are running an in-person workshop for PhD students and early career researchers working in any discipline and who are using CDA. Sheffield, UK 15th & 16th January 2026. • Professor...
https://www.discourseacademy.org/post/how-to-use-critical-discourse-analysis-in-your-research
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Dr Tamsin Parnell
about 1 month ago
Last year I was supposed to give a presentation titled 'Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis'. Unfortunately it didn't go ahead due to illness. I've made the presentation available on Researchgate for anyone interested.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis
PDF | On Nov 13, 2025, Tamsin Parnell published Researching national identity and migration discourses in times of polycrisis | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397570884_Researching_national_identity_and_migration_discourses_in_times_of_polycrisis
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University and College Union (UCU)
about 1 month ago
Today is the last day to safely vote in the FE ballot! If it’s in your bag, your desk, under the bed, fish it out and run to that post box!!! VOTE YES!
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Looking forward to this workshop! Join me,
@kranertmichael.bsky.social
, Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!
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about 1 month ago
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Discourse Academy
about 1 month ago
How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers. 15 & 16 January 2026 Sheffield, UK Details:
www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...
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Do you know any PhD/early career researchers who would benefit from a 2-day, in-person workshop on how to apply CDA in their research project? I'm really looking forward to this..!
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about 2 months ago
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Dr. Lucy Mayblin
about 2 months ago
Most of the time we ask the wrong questions in relation to asylum policy. What this new report on asylum accommodation shows, for me, is that we need to be asking all the time "who materially benefits from the current policy approach?"
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Billions squandered on asylum accommodation by Home Office mismanagement – Home Affairs Committee report finds - Committees - UK Parliament
Flawed contract design and incompetent delivery left the Home Office unable to cope with the surge in demand for asylum accommodation, a report by the Home Affairs Committee has found.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/83/home-affairs-committee/news/209874/billions-squandered-on-asylum-accommodation-by-home-office-mismanagement-home-affairs-committee-report-finds/
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Critical Discourse Studies
2 months ago
We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged. Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.
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John E. Richardson
2 months ago
Happy pre-order book day to
@laurafilardollamas.bsky.social
! Conflict, Discourse and Cognition: Political Discourse in Northern Ireland Out soon!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/conflict-...
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Conflict, Discourse and Cognition
A comprehensive approach to the study of discourse and conflict, this book explores how opposing communities construe discourse worlds which appear to reflect t…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/conflict-discourse-and-cognition-9781350373785/
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Language & Power Podcast
2 months ago
Sign-up for the Language & Power newsletter on our website for an email notification of new episodes.
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Jaakko Husa
2 months ago
France’s Sorbonne University about to leave Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings: "These rankings are...black boxes that operate in a closed system”
sciencebusiness.net/news/univers...
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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-university-ranking
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My short blog post on social actors in CDA...
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2 months ago
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Next one on my series of short posts on social actors in CDA - what is a social actor and why should we care as critical discourse analysis's?
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2 months ago
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Matteo Fuoli
3 months ago
It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks
@michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!
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Had a fantastic first webinar in my free series 'The representation of social actors in text and discourse' last Friday - thanks to all who attended! Sign up on the website:
lnkd.in/eaaYkvny
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4 months ago
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Language & Power Podcast
5 months ago
languagepowerpodcast.org/blog/webinar-series-the-representation-of-social-actors-in-text-and-discourse
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Webinar Series: The representation of social actors in text and discourse — Language/Power Podcast
Sign up for the September webinar series on the representation of social actors by Dr Michael Farrelly
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/blog/webinar-series-the-representation-of-social-actors-in-text-and-discourse
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Language & Power Podcast
6 months ago
Language and Power Podcast recorded a new episode: with participants in an academic colloquium at ISFC50 in Glasgow this week: Changing Climate, Changing Discourse with
@katherineeruss1.bsky.social
@matteofuoli.bsky.social
John Currie, Cinzia Bevitori, Gerard O'Grady, Daniel Fryer, Paul White
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Language & Power Podcast
6 months ago
We had a great time talking about the article! Well worth a read and a listen to the podcast!
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Michael Kranert
6 months ago
No time to read my new article, but still curious about climate change policy making in local government? Have a listen to this podcast, where I talk about it with Tom Bartlett and
@michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
. Many more great insights into language and power in their podcast!
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Language & Power Podcast
6 months ago
New episode of the podcast out now - with
@kranertmichael.bsky.social
on his work published in
@critdiscstuds.bsky.social
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languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...
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S5 Episode 2: The wickedness of net-zero policy - Michael Kranert — Language/Power Podcast
We chat with Dr Michael Kranert about his new research article ‘The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse’. In the article, he examines how international climate change policies ...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l
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Language & Power Podcast
7 months ago
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Some further discussion and results of the social actor analysis we spoke about in our last episode
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Analysis of the representation of social actors in 3 media texts on COP 29 — Language/Power Podcast
In our last podcast episode, I spoke about an a nalysis of the representation of social actors that I had done of the 3 media texts we focused on in that episode. In this post, I share the results ta...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/blog/analysis-of-the-representation-of-social-actors-in-3-media-texts-on-cop-29
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Language & Power Podcast
8 months ago
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Which global media outlets to look at? — Language/Power Podcast
We’re working on a new episode which will look at how COP 29 in Azerbaijan was represented in the media - we’re particularly interested in the representation of COP being held in ‘petro-states’. I wan...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/blog/which-global-media-outlets-to-look-at
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It's great to get back into recording some podcasts for the new series.
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7 months ago
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Language & Power Podcast
7 months ago
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New episode! COP 29, press coverage, and the intersection of geopolitics and climate action through analysis of social actors...
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S5 Episode 1: COP 29, Credibility, & the Press — Language/Power Podcast
In this episode of the Language and Power Podcast, we discuss COP29 held in Azerbaijan in 2024. We analyse media coverage from CNN, BBC, and the New York Times, focusing on the portrayal of Azer...
https://languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l-nckk7
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