My Research

At the moment, I'm working on a number of projects:

(1) investigating (discriminatory) attitudes towards female football commentators, combining corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analytic and experimental approaches.

(2) mapping sociolinguistic variation in Irish English with the Speak for Yersel project at Glasgow.

(3) using systemic functional linguistics to examine discourse around the recent referenda in Ireland (March 2024) proposing changes to the Irish constitution, focusing on gender and care.

(4) an experimental project on lexical variation looking at the associations which people hold around for different terms for abortion.

My PhD research was in the field of linguistic landscapes. Specifically, it focused on the recent (and ongoing) debates surrounding the legalisation of abortion in Ireland, and how issues of gender and national identity surface in signage commenting on or advocating for or against liberalisation of abortion laws.

I have a particular interest in language in the Irish context, as well as issues of gender and political economy. 

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