At Lancaster University I teach Masters courses in Critical Discourse Analysis (as part of the MA in Discourse Studies) and Cognitive Linguistics.

At doctoral level, I am happy to receive proposals for research projects in any area combining critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics but would especially welcome proposals which, from this perspective, address the following:

• The conceptual and ideological import of grammatical constructions
• Metaphor, including visual metaphor, in political/media discourse
• The use/development of experimental methods in critical discourse analysis
• Event-structure in political/media discourse
• Modality, evidentiality and evaluation in political/media discourse
• Visuo-spatial properties of conceptualisation and their ideological function in political/media discourse
• The mapping between meaning elements in language and image
• Semantic annotation in linguistic and visual data
• Gesture in political communication

To see what my current students are working on click here.