Our team

Dr Kieran File

Dr Kieran File is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at The University of Warwick and chair of the Sports Communication and Culture Research Collective. His research explores issues related to language use in professional and competitive sporting contexts. Kieran’s current research interests are in the areas of team communication in professional sporting contexts and the issues professional sports managers and coaches have when speaking to the media. Kieran also applies his research to help sports teams, coaches and other professional sporting stakeholders consider how they can use language in the media to manage their impressions or how they can use language as a high-performance tool in their sporting context. He has worked with a number of professional clubs and national sports teams and athletes.

Professor Stephanie Schnurr

Stephanie Schnurr is a Professor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics at The University of Warwick. She has a keen interest in sports culture and communication with a particular focus on different forms and aspects of leadership and teamwork, and the multiple functions of humour. Together with her colleagues, she has researched how racial humour in a football team may contribute to team cohesion as well as fragmentation, and how easily humour can fail and what negative consequences this may have for athletes when this happens during media interviews. She has also explored the effects of different leadership constellations in a netball team, and how leadership becomes a collective activity when the coach

Dr Marianna Patrick

I am a sociolinguist studying how people navigate and narrate moments of friction and change. I have researched and published on inclusion in sport, focusing on multicultural cricket teams, as well as leadership and gender discourses in Formula One and Tour de France.

Dr Mingzhi Li

My research interests encompass the construction of masculinities, gender studies, and critical discourse analysis. At present, I am concentrating on the masculinity construction of Chinese male international students studying in the UK.

Honglin Xiang

Postgraduate Researcher

Areas: Health communication, doctor-patient interaction, professional communication, discourse analysis, teamwork

Aishee Bhattacharya

Postgraduate Researcher

Areas: Sociolinguistics(variation and sound change), Phonetics (manner of articulation of sounds), sociolinguistic and sociophonetic analysis of dramatic texts, variations of Bangla (Bengali) language.

Xinran Gao

Postgraduate Researcher

Areas:Sociolinguistics (variation & sound change, quantitative analysis), Phonetics & Phonology (prosody, tone, voice quality), Chinese languages (Mandarin, Wu)

Azadeh Moladoost

Postgraduate Researcher

In my Ph.D. I explore the concept of feedback-seeking behavior in English language teachers and its possible contribution to teacher development.