Gavin Brookes (editor) - Analysing Health Communication: Discourse Approaches

is a Reader at Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. His work focuses on historical and applied approaches to the analysis of discourse and scientific knowledge. His research interests include genetic testing, psychiatric genetics, genetic counselling, professional ethics and the practice of digital therapies. His publications include Genetic Testing: Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame (2011) and Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology (2019).

is a Senior Research Associate at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, where she works with a team of researchers on the Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD), bringing to bear her experience on the ethics and policy considerations for research in a range of institutional settings. She has previously conducted applied linguistic research in a number of professional contexts, with a strong focus on healthcare, including an ESRC Future Research Leaders award at the University of Nottingham (201316), from which the data and research underpinning her chapter originate.

is a Senior Qualitative Researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. She is also Principal Investigator for the One in a Million primary care consultations archive. She specialises in the application of CA methods to interactions between patients and healthcare professionals with the aim of improving patient care. She has studied patient consultations in general practice and out-of-hours primary care for a variety of projects including the management of common infections. She has also pioneered the application of CA methods in clinical trials of talk-based interventions. Her findings have informed e-learning for healthcare professionals with Health Education England.

is a Senior Research Associate in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University and associate editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. His research interests include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodality and health communication. His recent publications in these areas include Obesity in the News: Language and Representation in the British Press with Paul Baker (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), Corpus, Discourse and Mental Health with Daniel Hunt (2020) and The Language of Patient Feedback: A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication with Paul Baker and Craig Evans (2019).

is Teaching Associate in Linguistics and Professional Communication in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. She conducts research in the area of professional communication, focusing in particular on leadership and interpersonal aspects of talk at work. Having worked on a number of projects funded by the university and ESRC, she has been involved in carrying out research, training and consultancy work with a wide range of public, private and third-sector organisations from across the UK.

is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London. She specialises in language and communication around illness and healthcare (humour, metaphor, narratives, impoliteness etc.). She is author of Sylvia Plath and the Language of Affective States: Written Discourse and the Experience of Depression (2015), co-author of Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study (2018), editor of Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts (2020) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language (2017).

is Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) Group. His research activities include studies of interactions between health professionals and patients, health inequities in cancer care decision-making and the social meanings of medications. His books include The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation (2012), Borderland Practices: Regulating Alternative Therapy in New Zealand (2003), Sociology of Health in New Zealand (2002, with Allison Kirkman) and Public Health, Personal Health and Pills: Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance