Dr Gavin Brookes

Reader

Research Overview

I am a Reader in Linguistics and UKRI Future Leader Fellow with an interest in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication.

My current project, '' (funded ?1 million by UKRI), examines linguistic and visual representations of dementia across a range of public contexts.

In 2023, I was awarded a Fulbright All Disciplines Award. As a result of this, in 2024 I will be based in Northern Arizona University, where I will carry out research on representations of dementia in US media.

I am Associate Editor of the (John Benjamins).

I am Co-Editor of the book series (Bloomsbury, with Michaela Mahlberg).

I am Co-Editor of the (Cambridge University Press, with Veronika Koller).

I am a Fellow of the .

I am a member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) .

I am a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) .

I am a member of the AHRC .

I am a member of the Expert Review College for .

I am a member of the Executive Committee of the (BAAL).

I am the Convenor of BAAL's .

I am a member of the Executive Committee of the .

I serve on the Editorial Boards of the following journals: , , , , , , , , .