This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Interesting analysis: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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'. languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...

New episode out now! COP 30, mega-cops, and meaningful participation with Hayley Walker languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...

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!!! www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...

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....

Day 2 - Positive discourse analysis - Genre & social practices - [Optional] Project presentations & feedback #qualitativeresearch #discourse #CDA www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...

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 www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...

Something to look forward to in January... #cda #PhD #discourse

Two-day workshop on CDA - join us in Sheffield! www.discourseacademy.org/post/how-to-...

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/...

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!

Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!

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...

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..!

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?"

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.

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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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...

My short blog post on social actors in CDA...

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?

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!

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

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

We had a great time talking about the article! Well worth a read and a listen to the podcast!

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!

New episode of the podcast out now - with @kranertmichael.bsky.social on his work published in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social ! languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog...

languagepowerpodcast.org/blog/analysi... Some further discussion and results of the social actor analysis we spoke about in our last episode

It's great to get back into recording some podcasts for the new series.

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 New episode! COP 29, press coverage, and the intersection of geopolitics and climate action through analysis of social actors...