Health Comm Hub
Innovative Approaches to Health Communication
Interdisciplinary Insights from Linguistics, Digital Media, and Practices
Language matters
Language plays a pivotal role in shaping how individuals understand illness and well-being, influencing patient engagement in various ways. These include how openly people share their experiences, how they interpret health-related risks, and how health information is communicated across different cultural and social contexts.
Digital Transformation
At the same time, digital technologies such as health apps, telemedicine, and AI-driven tools are transforming healthcare delivery. This shift necessitates the use of digital methods from digital media studies to access, analyse, and interpret digital health data appropriately.
Aims
This project aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between linguistics, digital media studies and healthcare through a series of targeted activities designed to explore how linguistic and digital methods can enhance healthcare research.
Events & Activities
Workshop - The Role of Language in Healthcare Research
This workshop offers an opportunity for PhD students and early career researchers interested in language, discourse, and healthcare communication to exchange ideas, build connections with peers and gain fresh perspectives on health communication research.
Workshop - Research Objects and Methods In Online Healthcare
In this hands-on workshop, we invite PhD students and early-career researchers to explore the evolving world of online healthcare through key research objects and digital methods. Working in groups, participants will follow guided steps to carry out a mini research project based on real-world cases.