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23 Apr 2025

The Office of the Department of English and Communication has moved to 9/F, PolyU Hung Hom Bay Campus, 8 Hung Lok Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong w.e.f. 14 April 2025.

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Biography

Paul Baker holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of Central Lancashire (1993), A MSc in Psychological Research Methods from Lancaster University (1994) and a PhD in Linguistics (2001) from Lancaster University. His academic career began at Lancaster University, where he became a lecturer in 2002, going on to become a Professor in 2012, as well as a member of the Corpus Approaches to Social Science ESRC-funded research centre. He joined the Department of English and Communication at Hong Kong Poly U in 2026.

Research Overview

A leading authority in corpus linguistics, Professor Baker’s research examines corpus approaches to discourse analysis, using a wide range of corpora including newspapers, political debates, patient feedback, online propaganda and forums. He has developed new methods and techniques in corpus linguistics, including the integration of Graph Theory into collocational networks, triangulation methods, multimodal corpora, prototypical texts via keywords, and the concepts of lockwords and surprise words. He has also combined critical AI with corpus linguistics.

He has published 26 books and 49 journal articles, and is Commissioning Editor of the Journal Corpora. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research on the secret language Polari has been international recognised, earning his book Fabulosa a Times Higher Book of the Year Award in 2019. In 2026 He gave a lecture on Polari at the prestigious Darwin College lecture series at Cambridge University.

Education and Academic Qualifications

  • PhD Linguistics (2001, Lancaster)
  • MSc (Distinction), Psychological Research Methods (Lancaster)
  • BSc (Iii) Psychology, Central Lancashire

Academic and Professional Experience

  • Professor of English Language, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University

Teaching Areas

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis

Research Interests

  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis
  • Language and Health
  • Language and Identity
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Language and Gender
  • News Discourse

Research Output

  1. Baker, P. Scheumk, H and Qian, Y. (2025) Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics: A multimodal study of news representations of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Baker, P. and Brookes, G. (2025) Masculinities and Language. London: Routledge.
  3. Collins, L. and Baker, P. (2023) Language, Discourse and Anxiety. Cambridge: CUP.
  4. Baker, P. (2023) Using Corpora for Discourse Analysis. Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury.
  5. Baker, P. (2023) Camp! The Story of the Attitude that Conquered the World. London: Footnote Press
  6. Gillings, M. Mautner, G. and Baker, P. (2023). Cambridge Elements: CUP.
  7. Baker, P. (2022) Outrageous! The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education. London: Reaktion.
  8. Brookes, G. and Baker, P. (2021) Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  9. Baker, P. Vessey, R. and McEnery, T. (2021) The Language of Violent Jihad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  10. Egbert, J. and Baker, P. (eds) (2019) Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis. London: Routledge.
  11. Baker, P. (2019) Fabulosa! The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language. London: Reaktion.
  12. Baker, P., Brookes, G. and Evans, C. (2019) The Language of Patient Feedback: A corpus linguistic study of online health communication. London: Routledge.
  13. Baker, P. (2017) American and British English. Divided by a Common Language? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  14. Baker, P. and Balirano, G. (eds) (2017) Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture. London: Palgrave. 
  15. Baker, P. and Egbert, J. (eds) (2016) Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus-Linguistic Research. London: Routledge.
  16. Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (eds) (2015) Corpora and Discourse: Integrating Discourse and Corpora. London: Palgrave.
  17. Baker, P. (2014) Using Corpora to Analyse Gender. London: Bloomsbury.
  18. Baker, P. Gabrielatos, C. and McEnery. T. (2013) Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  19. Baker, P. and Ellece, S. (2011) Key Terms in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
  20. Baker, P. (2010) Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 
  21. Baker, P. (ed.) (2009) Contemporary Corpus Linguistics. London: Continuum. 
  22. Baker, P. (2008) Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality. London: Exquinox. 
  23. Baker, P. (2006) Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum. 
  24. Baker, P., Hardie, A. & McEnery, A. (2006) A Glossary of Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  25. Baker, P. (2005) Public Discourses of Gay Men. London: Routledge. 
  26. Baker, P. & Stanley, J. (2003) Hello Sailor! Seafaring life for gay men: 1945-1990. London: Pearson. 
  27. Baker, P. (2002) Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang. London: Continuum. 
  28. Baker, P. (2002). Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men. London: Routledge.
  1. Baker, P. (2026) Surprise words and core words: Collocational divergence across corpora. Applied Corpus Linguistics 6(3) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2026.100220
  2. Hanks, E., McEnery, A., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., Baker, P., Brezina, V., Brookes, G., Clarke, I., Bottini, R. (2024). Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation. Research in Corpus Linguistics. 12(2):24-44.
  3. Collins, L., Baker, P. and Brookes, G. (2024) Representations of obesity in Australian and UK news coverage: A diachronic comparison. Applied Corpus Linguistics. 4(2).
  4. Bednarek, M., Bray, C., Vanichkina, D., Brookes, G., Bonfiglioli, C., Coltman-Patel, T., Lee, K., Baker, P. (2024) Weight stigma: towards a language-informed analytical framework. Applied Linguistics. 45(3):424-448.
  5. Curry, N., Baker, P. and Brookes, G. (2024) Generative AI for corpus approaches to discourse studies: A critical evaluation of ChatGPT. Applied Corpus Linguistics. 4(1).
  6. Collins, L. and Baker, P. (2024) A computer-assisted analysis of image representations of obesity: Comparing UK news content with the World Obesity Federation image bank. Visual Communication.
  7. Collins, L., Nicholson, N., Lidbetter, N., Smithson, D., Baker, P. (2024) Implementation of Anxiety UK’s Ask Anxia® chatbot service: Lessons learned. JMIR Human Factors. doi: 10.2196/53897 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11217701/
  8. Baker, P. (2023) A year to remember? Introducing the BE21 corpus and exploring recent part of speech tag change in British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
  9. Baker, P. and Collins. L (2023) Creating and analysing a multimodal corpus of news texts with Google Cloud Vision's automatic image tagger. Applied Corpus Linguistics 3(1).
  10. Egber, J. Wizner, S., Keller, D., Biber, D., McEnery, T. and Baker, P. (2021) Identifying and describing functional discourse units in the BNC Spoken 2014. Text and Talk 41(5-6): 715-737.
  11. Brookes, G. and Baker, P. (2021) Patient feedback and duration of treatment: A corpus-based analysis of written comments on cancer care in England. Applied Corpus Linguistics 1(3).
  12. Heritage, F. and Baker, P. (2021) Crime or Culture? Representations of chemsex in the British press and magazines aimed at GBTQ+ men. Critical Discourse Studies. Published online 12 April 2021.
  13. Brookes, G. and Baker, P. (2021) Fear and responsibility. Discourses of obesity and risk in the UK press. Journal of Risk Research. Published online 5 January 2021.
  14. Baker, P. Brookes, G., Atanasova, D. and Flint, S. (2020) Changing frames of obesity in the UK press 2008-2017. Social Science and Medicine 264.
  15. Baker, P. and Vessey, R. (2018) A corpus-driven comparison of English and French Islamist extremist texts. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23(3): 255-278.
  16. Brookes, G. and Baker, P. (2017) 'What does patient feedback reveal about the NHS? A mixed methods study of comments posted to the NHS Choices online service'. BMJ Open 7(4).
  17. Paknahad Jaborooty, M. and Baker, P. (2017) 'Resisting silence: moments of empowerment in Iranian women's blogs'. Gender and Language 11(1): 77-99.
  18. Baker, P. (2016) 'The shapes of collocation.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21(2): 139-164.
  19. Baker, P. and Levon, E. (2016) '"That's what I call a man": representations of racialised and classed masculinities in the UK print media. Gender and Language 10(1): 106-139.
  20. Anthony, L. and Baker, P. (2015) 'ProtAnt: A tool for analysing the protoypicality of texts.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20(3): 273-292.
  21. Baker, P. (2015) 'Introduction to the Special Issue.' Discourse and Communication 9(2): 143-147.
  22. Chen, Y-H., and Baker, P. (2015) 'Investigating criterial discourse features across second language development: lexical bundles in rated learner essays, CEFR B1, B2 and C1.' Applied Linguistics
  23. Baker, P. and Levon, E. (2015) 'Picking the right cherries?: a comparison of corpus-based and qualitative analyses of news articles about masculnity.' Discourse and Communication 9(2): 221-336.
  24. Baker, P. and Love, R. (2015) 'The hate that dare not speak its name?' Journal of Language, Aggression and Conflict. 3(1): 57-86.
  25. Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C. and McEnery T. (2013) ‘Sketching Muslims: A corpus-driven analysis of representations around the word “Muslim” in the British press 1998-2009’ Applied Linguistics 34:3255-78.
  26. Baker, P. and Potts, A. (2013) '"Why do white people have thin lips?": Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms." Critical Discourse Studies 10:2 187-204.
  27. Baker, P. (2012) ‘From gay language to normative discourse: a diachronic corpus analysis of Lavender Linguistics conference abstracts 1994-201.’ Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:2 179-205.
  28. Potts, A. and Baker. P. (2012) 'Does semantic tagging identify cultural change in British and American English?' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:3 295-324.
  29. Baker, P. (2012) 'Acceptable bias?: Using corpus linguistics methods with critical discourse analysis.' Critical Discourse Studies 9:3 247-256.
  30. Gabrielatos, C., McEnery, T., Diggle, P., Baker. P. and ESRC (funder). (2012) 'The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 17:2 151-175.
  31. Baker, P. (2011) 'Times may change but we'll always have money: a corpus driven examination of vocabulary change in four diachronic corpora.' Journal of English Linguistics 39: 65-88.
  32. Baker, P. (2010) 'Will Ms ever be as frequent as Mr? A corpus-based comparison of gendered terms across four diachronic corpora of British English.' Gender and Language 4.1: 125-129.
  33. Chen, Y. and Baker, P. (2010) 'Lexical Bundles in L1 and L2 Academic Writing.' Language Learning and Technology. 14: 2 30-49.
  34. Baker, P. (2010) 'Representations of Islam in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers 1999-2005.' Language and Politics. 9:2 310-338.
  35. Baker, P. (2009) 'The BE06 Corpus of British English and recent language change.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 14:3 312-337.
  36. Baker, P.,Gabrielatos, C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyzanowski, M., McEnery, T and Wodak, R. (2008) 'A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press.' Discourse and Society 19(3): 273-306.
  37. Gabrielatos, C. and Baker, P. (2008) 'Fleeing, sneaking, flooding: a corpus analysis of discursive constructions of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Press 1996-2005)' Journal of English Linguistics 36:1 pp. 5-38.
  38. Baker, P. and McEnery, A. (2005) 'A corpus-based approach to discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in UN and newspaper texts.' Language and Politics 4:2 pp. 197-226(30).
  39. Baker, P. Hardie, A. McEnery, A., Xiao, R., Bontcheva, K., Cunningham, H., Gaizauskas, R., Hamza, O., Maynard, D., Tablan, V., Ursu, C., Jayaram, B.D., Leisher, M. (2004) 'Corpus linguistics and South Asian languages: Corpus creation and tool development', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 19, Issue 4, pp 509-524.
  40. Baker, P. (2004) 'Querying keywords: questions of difference, frequency and sense in keywords analysis.' Journal of English Linguistics. 32: 4 pp 346-359.
  41. Baker, P. (2004) '"Unnatural acts"' Discourses of homosexuality within the House of Lords debates on gay male law reform Sociolinguistics 8:1 88-106.
  42. Baker, P. (2002) 'Construction of Gay Identity via Polari in the Julian and Sandy Radio Sketches,' Lesbian and Gay Review, 3:3: pp 75-84.
  43. Baker, P. (2001) 'Moral Panic and Alternative Identity Construction in Usenet'. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 7:1.
  44. Baker, P. Lie, M., McEnery, A. and Sebba, M. (2000) 'Building a Corpus of Spoken Sylheti', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp 419-431.
  45. McEnery, A., Wilson, A.and Baker, P.(2000) 'Language teaching: corpus based help for teaching grammar', Journada de Corpus Linguistics, Volume 6, pp 65-77.
  46. McEnery, A. Baker, P. Gaizauskas, R. & Cunningham, H. (2000) 'EMILLE: towards a corpus of South Asian languages', British Computing Society Machine Translation Specialist Group, London, pp 11-1 - 11-9.
  47. McEnery, A. Wilson, A.and Baker, P. (1997) 'Teaching Grammar Again after Twenty Years: Corpus based help for grammar teaching.' New Approaches to Grammar Teaching, RECALL Journal, Volume 9, Number 2, pp 8-17.
  48. Baker, P., McEnery, A.and Wilson, A. (1995) 'A brief report on a statistical analysis of corpus-based versus traditional human-teaching methods of part-of-speech analysis', Language Testing Update, Issue 18, pp 59-62.
  49. McEnery, A., Baker, P. and Wilson, A. (1995) 'A Statistical Analysis of Corpus Based Computer vs Traditional Human Teaching Methods of Part of Speech Analysis', Computer Assisted Language Learning, Volume 8, Number 2-3, pp 259-274.
  50. Baker, P. (1994) 'Lithium Discontinuation - A meta-analysis.' Lithium.
  1. Baker, P. (2024) Associations Between Islam, Extremism and Terrorism in the British National News 1998–2019. In S. Al-Alazmi (ed). Media Language on Islam and Muslims: Terminologies and Their Effects. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave. pp. 83-106.
  2. Baker, P. and Collins L. (2023) ‘I Am a Man but I Can Cry Right Now’: Representations of Masculinity in an Anxiety Support Forum. In G. Brookes and M. Chalupnik (Eds) Masculinities and Discourses of Men’s Health, Switzerland: Palgrave, pp 25-48.
  3. Baker, P. and McGlashan, M. (2020) Critical Discourse Analysis. In: Adolphs, S. & Knight, D. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of English Language and the Digital Humanities. London: Routledge. pp. 220-241.
  4. Baker, P. (2020) Corpus-assisted discourse analysis. In C. Hart and V. Koller (eds) Researching Discourse: A Student Guide. London: Routledge, pp. 124-142.
  5. Baker, P. and Baker, H. (2019) Conceptualising masculinity and femininity in the British press. In C. Carter and L. Steiner and S. Allan (eds) Journalism, Gender and Power. London: Routledge pp. 363-382.
  6. Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (2018) 'The value of revisiting and extending previous studies: The Case of Islam in the UK Press.' In R. Scholz (Ed) Quantifying Approaches to Spoken Discourse. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 215-249.
  7. Subtirelu, N. C. and Baker, P. (2017) Corpus-based approaches. In Richardson, J. and Flowerdew, J. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies, pp. 107-120.
  8. Baker, P. (2017) Sexuality. In E. Friginal (ed) Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge, pp. 159-177.
  9. Baker, P. (2016) 'Gendered Discourses' in Baker, P. and Egbert, J. (eds) Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus-Linguistics Research. London Routledge, pp. 138-151.
  10. Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (2015) 'Who benefits when discourse gets democratised? Analysing a Twitter corpus around the British Benefits Street debate.' In Baker, P. and McEnery T. (eds) (2015) Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora. London: Palgrave, pp 244-265.
  11. Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (2015) 'Introduction' In Baker, P. and McEnery, T. (eds) (2015) Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora. London: Palgrave, pp 1-20.
  12. Baker, P. (2015) 'Two hundred years of the American man.' In T. Milani (ed) Language and Masculinities: performances, intersections, dislocations. London: Routledge.
  13. Baker, P. and McEnery, A. (2014) '"'FIND THE DOCTORS OF DEATH': The UK Press and the Issue of Foreign Doctors Working in the NHS, a Corpus-Based Approach". In A. Jaworski and N. Coupland (eds) The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge.
  14. Baker, P. (2014) '"Bad wigs and screaming mimis": Using corpus-Assisted techniques to carry out critical discourse analysis of the representation of trans people in the British press.' In C. Hart and P. Cap (eds) Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies. London, Bloomsbury: 211-236
  15. Baker P. ‘Discourse and Gender’. (2013) In K. Hyland and B. Paltridge (eds) Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
  16. Baker, P. (2013) ‘Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics’. J . Holmes (ed). Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. A Practical Guide. Wiley Blackwell.
  17. Baker, P. (2012) 'Corpora and Gender studies' In K. Hyland, C. M. Huat and M. Handford (eds) Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 100-116.
  18. Baker, P. (2012) ‘Diachronic lexical change in American English (1961-2006).’ In J. Zhang (ed). A Morphologically-based Study of the Lexical Collocation Heterogeneity in EST Texts. Shanghai Jiaotong University.
  19. Baker, P. (2011) 'Social involvement in Corpus Studies.' In V. Viana, S. Zyngier, and G. Barnbrook (eds) Perspectives on Corpus Linguisitcs. Amsterdam: John Benjamins pp. 17-28.
  20. Baker, P. (2010) 'Corpus Linguistics'. L. Litosseleti (ed) Research Methods in Linguistics. London: Continuum, pp. 93-113.
  21. Baker, P. (2009) 'Issues in teaching corpus-based discourse analysis' In L. Lombardo (ed). Using Corpora to Learn about Language and Discourse. Peter Lang, pp. 73-98.
  22. Baker, P. (2009) 'Introduction' In P. Baker (ed) Contemporary Approaches to Corpus Linguistics. London: Continnum, pp. 1-8.
  23. Baker, P. (2009) 'Language and Sexuality'. In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (eds) English Language and Linguistics. London: Palgrave, pp. 550-563.
  24. Baker, P. (2008) 'Eligible' bachelors and 'frustrated' spinsters: corpus linguistics, gender and language. In J. Sunderland, K. Harrington and H. Stantson (eds) Gender and Language Research Methodologies. London: Palgrave.
  25. McEnery, T. and Baker, P. (2003) 'Corpora, translation and multilingual computing' in F. Zannetin (ed.) Corpora in Translator Education, St. Jerome Press, Manchester.
  26. Baker, P. (2002) 'No Fats, Femmes or Flamers: Changing Constructions of Identity and the Object of Desire in Gay Men's Magazines.' B. Benwell (ed.) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Sociological Review.
  27. McEnery, A., Baker, P. and Cheepen, C. (2001) 'Lexis, Indirectness and Politeness in Operator Calls.' In C. Meyer & P. Leistyna. (eds.) Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use. Rodopi: Amsterdam.
  28. Singh, S., McEnery, A. and Baker, P.(2000) 'Building a Parallel Corpus of English/Punjabi', in J. Veronis (ed) Parallel Text Processing. Kluwer: Dordrecht, pp 335-347.
  29. McEnery, A.M., Baker, P. andHardie, A. (2000) 'Swearing and Abuse in Modern British English', in B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and P.J. Melia (eds.) Practical Applications of Language Corpora, Peter Lang: Hamburg, pp 37-48.
  30. McEnery, A. and Baker, P. (2000) 'Minority Language Engineering', in B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and P.J. Melia (eds.) Practical Applications of Language Corpora, Peter Lang: Hamburg, pp 411-428.
  31. McEnery, A.M., Baker, P. and Hardie, A. (2000) 'Assessing Claims about Language Use with Corpus Data - Swearing and Abuse', in J. Kirk (ed) Corpora Galore, Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp 45-55.
  32. Baker, P. (1997) 'Consistency and Accuracy in Correcting Automatically Tagged Data.' In Corpus Annotation. R. Garside, G. Leech & A. McEnery (eds.) Longman Addison-Wesley, pp 243-250.
  33. McEnery, A.M., Baker, P. & Hutchinson, J.E. (1997) 'A Corpus Based Grammar Tutor'. In R.G. Garside, G.N. Leech & A.M. McEnery (eds.) Corpus Annotation, Longman Addison-Wesley, pp 209-219.

Others

  • 2020 Principal Investigator. ESRC Knowledge Exchange grant, Improving Patient Experience £65,515
  • 2017 Principal Investigator. ESRC Knowledge Exchange grant, A Needle in a Haystack £27,000
  • 2016 Principal Investigator. ESRC Knowledge Exchange grant, Beyond the Checkbox £61,532
  • 2013 Co-investigator on ESRC Urgency grant to examine Twitter rape threats and discourses of online misogyny £191,000
  • 2013 Co-investigator on joint Trinity/ESRC grant to develop Trinity Learner Corpus. £577,037
  • 2013 Co-investigator on ESRC grant Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) £3,426,180
  • 2009 Principal Investigator. ESRC Grant to examine representation of Muslims in the UK press £100,000
  • 2005 Principal Investigator ESRC. Grant to examine discourse of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press, 1996-2006. £44,867
  • University of Florida (2026)
  • Cambridge University (2025)
  • Xi’an Jiaotong University (2025)
  • University of Innsbruck (2024)
  • University of Bologna (2022)
  • Lancaster University (2022)
  • University of Bergamo (2020)
  • Auckland University (2019)
  • Birmingham University (2019)
  • University of Nottingham (2017)
  • Newcastle University (2017)
  • ESSE, University of Galway (2016)
  • Masculinities and Representation, University of Naples (2015)
  • IMean, University of Warwick (2015)
  • YLMP, Poznan University (2014)
  • Lavender Linguistics Conference (American University Washington DC 2013 and Nottingham 2017)
  • Lancaster University Linguistics PG Conference (Lancaster University 2012)
  • Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis Conference (Bologna 2012)
  • Corpus Linguistics Conference (Birmingham, 2011)
  • The American Association of Corpus Linguistics (Atlanta, Georgia, 2011)
  • Masculinities Conference (Huddersfield 2010)

Esteem Measures

  • Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2020)
  • Member of the ESRC’s Grant Assessment Panel (2019-2022)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2017)
  • Commissioning Editor: Corpora Journal
  • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • Text and Talk
  • Gender and Language
  • Discourse and Discrimination
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Prize from Lancaster University for Research Impact (2018)
  • Consistently ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Communication & Textual Studies (subfield: Languages & Linguistics) on Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists” list

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