Gavin Brookes, Ph.D.
Gavin Brookes, Ph.D.
Reader in Linguistics and UKRI Future Leader Fellow
Guest lectures
As part of the DH Kolloquium:
»Obesity in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Studies Perspective«
on Tuesday, November 5th at 6.15pm
As part of the Digital Humanities Training Day (DHTD):
»Corpus Linguistics, Generative AI, and Discourses of Dementia«
on Friday, November 22nd at 3.15pm
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Gavin is a Reader in Linguistics and UKRI Future Leader Fellow, based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University (UK). His research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, health communication and the health humanities. His current project, ‘Public Discourses of Dementia: Challenging Stigma and Promoting Personhood’ (funded £1 million by UKRI), draws on corpus-based and multimodal approaches to discourse analysis in order to examine linguistic and visual representations of dementia across a range of contexts. In 2023, he was awarded a Fulbright All Disciplines Award. As a result of this, he has spent much of 2024 based in Northern Arizona University (USA). He is spending the latter part of 2024 as a visiting researcher at FAU Erlangen (Germany). Gavin is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (John Benjamins), Co-Editor of the Corpus and Discourse book series (Bloomsbury, with Michaela Mahlberg), and Co-Editor of the Critical Discourse Studies Elements series (Cambridge University Press, with Veronika Koller). Gavin is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and the Global China Academy. He is also a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Grant Assessment Panel and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Advisory Board.