LIP Programme, Term 2 2026

Unless otherwise indicated, sessions will be on Tuesday, 13:00pm, via Microsoft Teams 

    

Week 12 – **Wednesday 21 January 13:00, Hybrid talk, County South D72 and Teams**: 
Kristof Savski (Prince of Songkla University, Thailand), Investigating the discourse of ‘policy failure’ in Thailand’s English language education 

   

Week 13 – 27 January: Idreas Khandy (Anglia Ruskin University; Cambridgeshire Doctoral Training Partnership), Pop-culture as a tool of Subjectivation 

   

Week 14 – 3 February **Hybrid event, County South C59 and Teams**:  PhD Workshop 

   

Week 15 – 10 February **Hybrid talk, County South D72 and Teams**: Veronika Koller (Lancaster University), Raising language awareness through critical metaphor analysis: The case of corporate discourse 

   

Week 16 – 17 February: **Hybrid talk, Bowland North SR 13 and Teams**:  Shakthi Nataraj (Lancaster University), The Queerness of the Outsourced Tech Worker: Sexual Identity as a Function of Labour and Linguistic Practice 

   

Week 17 – 24 February: Vincent Wai Sum Tse & Alan Man him Wong (Monash University and University of Warwick; Chinese University of Hong Kong), “Grand master of skills”: Private tutors scaling eliteness in and through promotional profiles 

  

Week 18 – 3 March: Angeliki Lampropoulou (Queen Mary University of London), Framing diabetes: A critical metaphor analysis of British news media and online support fora 

  

Week 19 – 10 March:  Christos Sagredos (The American College of Greece), Doing affect qua doing advocacy in sex workers’ storytelling on social media 

 

Week 20 – 17 March **Hybrid talk, County South C89 and Teams**:  Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil (Lancaster University), Critical Discourse Studies and the Emotional Politics of Genocide 

 

  

 

All welcome!