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BA, MSc, PhD
My research interests lie in using a linguistic approach to examine perceptions surrounding social, cultural or political issues. In particular, I have been exploring health communications, human-animal relationships, animal ethics, and misinformation. My previous research has involved corpus linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, health communications, history, human-animal studies, and the digital humanities.
I am currently working on the AHRC-funded project Enhancing the value and wider benefit of research into Coronavirus Discourses: A Pan-London Immunisation Campaign and the Horizon Welfare Campaign project
I am a for the Faculty of Arts and I sit on the steering committee for the .
My ORCiD research profile can be viewed
Teaching Summary
Recent guest sessions delivered
MA Corpus Linguistics (2023-2024). Applied Corpus Linguistics: Working with External Stakeholders for Impactful Research
Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (2023-2024): Advanced Research Practice - Applied Corpus Linguistics
Distance Learning Summer School (2024). Applying linguistics to Health Communication
BA Applied Sociolinguistics at BCU (2023). Donkey Discourse: Applied Linguistics for Animal Welfare
Research Summary
I am currently working on the Horizon-funded project as part of the
I have also joined colleagues in the Schools of Geography and Veterinary Medicine and Science on the project 'Communicating avian influenza-related guidance to small scale poultry keepers in the UK', a follow-on from 'Avian influenza (AI) in the United Kingdom'. A recent publication relating to the previous research can be found here:
Recent publications
Vilar-Lluch, S., Kondo, K., & McClaughlin, E. (2024). Language of pandemic discourses. Elsevier.
The effects of modal value and imperative mood on self-predicted compliance to health guidance: the case of COVID-19. Text & Talk. .
UK Flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Preventive Veterinary Medicine. .
Veterinarians' knowledge and experience of avian influenza and perspectives on control measures in the UK. Veterinary Record. .
Invisible animals: understanding the contemporary status of donkeys in Britain. 础苍迟丑谤辞锄辞枚蝉. .
Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging. Heliyon. .
The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19. Medical Humanities. .
Selected Publications
EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SOL ELLIOTT, SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, STEPHEN DUNHAM, TAMSIN PARNELL, MICHAEL CLARK and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2024. Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
SARAH JEWITT, EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SOL ELLIOTT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN鈥怰AYNOR, MICHAEL CLARK, STEPHEN DUNHAM and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2024. Veterinary Record.
EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, SARA VILAR-LLUCH, TAMSIN PARNELL, DAWN KNIGHT, ELENA NICHELE, SVENJA ADOLPHS, J脡R脡MIE CLOS and GIOVANNI SCHIAZZA, 2023. Applied Corpus Linguistics. 3(1),
SARAH JEWITT, MATTHEW SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, EMMA MCCLAUGHLIN, MICHAEL CLARK, STEPHEN DUNHAM, SOL ELLIOTT, ALASTAIR MUNRO, TAMSIN PARNELL and RACHAEL TARLINTON, 2023. Heliyon.
Past Research
Previous projects undertaken at the 糖心原创
. The project explores the evolving nature and meaning of relics and the ways in which such objects bring together meaning and memory, and can be representative of people, time, experience and place.
Avian influenza (AI) in the United Kingdom: Developing an interdisciplinary network to explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers
Other previous projects include:
: Public Communication of COVID in Scotland (March-December 2020), Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, funded by The Scottish Funding Council
: Investigating public perceptions of donkeys in the UK, The Donkey Sanctuary, Devon
: The discursive representation of animals, Lancaster University and King's College London, funded by The Leverhulme Trust