My research interests sit at the intersection between critical and literary linguistics, which I approach primarily from a cognitive linguistic perspective. My PhD thesis explored the language used by soldiers to describe their performance of acts of violence, using frameworks from Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Poetics to develop a systematic discussion of the discursive construction of agency, intentionality, and responsibility. My chapter in 'New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style' continues along this theme, seeking to explain how the distinction between intentional and unintentional actions can be modelled within Cognitive Grammar for the purposes of critical and literary analysis. I am currently preparing a monograph for the Cambridge Elements in Cognitive Linguistic series to explore this process of analysing agency in discourse in more depth.

I am also interested in language and cognition more generally, including in multimodal contexts, and my current research continues to apply cognitive linguistic models to the stylistic analysis a range of texts. This includes forthcoming work on forensic stylistics, as well as critical linguistic perspectives on the language of artificial intelligence.

As a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA), I co-lead a working group to develop resources for supporting student understanding and engagement with best practice for academic conduct in the use of artificial intelligence in academic writing. Alongside department-level projects and my role as Head of Academic Integrity for Applied Linguistics, this feeds into my growing interest in the role and nature of AI-use in student academic writing.

Before joining Warwick in 2021, I held various teaching and lectureship posts at Sheffield, Liverpool, and De Montfort University. My PhD research, which I completed at the University of Sheffield in 2018, was generously funded by the Wolfson Foundation