I enjoyed being a bit of an influencer with my social media takeover for #RaAM17. It was such a great conference and I’m looking forward to keeping up connections made between postgrads as the postgraduate liaison

The May 2025 issue of the RaAM Newsletter is out now! Check it out here: raam.org.uk/newsletters/ Here’s what’s inside ⬇️🧵

🎓 PhD students: Want to contribute to our Metaphor Column? You can interview a senior researcher—or be interviewed! Contact @eloisebparr.bsky.social via: raam.org.uk/contact/

🎉 Big news! I'm submitting my PhD thesis this September! 📝✨ It's been a wild ride of research, resilience, and way too many snacks to fuel me, and now I’m officially on the hunt for my next adventure. 🚀

Pleased to say I’ve submitted my thesis. It’s been a strange 4 years… I’ve achieved more than I thought I would whilst also being diagnosed with a disability. Excited to have some quality time off before embarking on next steps

📆We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to 15th December 2024. We look forward to reviewing your submissions and seeing you at RaAM 17!

If you want to contribute to science but are not yet quite ready to donate your body, why not putting a team together to organise the next 2026 @raammetaphor.bsky.social RaAM Specialised Seminar or 2027 RaAM International Conference? Deadline: January 31 2025! www.raam.org.uk/conferences/...

Celebrating joining the Xodus with my first post; this week Louise Nuttall and I published a new report on attitudes to diagnostic language for pregnancy loss, which was picked up by the @theguardian.com Report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usag... Article here: amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As I’m nearing thesis submission, I’m looking for postdoc research and/or teaching positions for the new year. My research interests are metaphor, corpus discourse analysis, health communication, and pregnancy discourse. I’m also interested in disability and neurodivergence due to lived experience.

📢 The latest RaAM newsletter is out now! 📰 Catch all the updates about the upcoming conference, exciting projects, and news on the metaphor studies. Check out this thread for highlights and read it out on our website: 🔗 raam.org.uk/newsletters/... #MetaphorResearch