As the activities below indicate, I am passionate about amplifying postgraduate student voices in higher education. I am interested in all aspects of academic publishing, from peer review to production. I have been involved in designing, writing and editing various student-focused magazines and journals since 2015. I have experience teaching at all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate taught study.
2023-2024
- Participated in Community of Practice for Lived Experience workshops as part of City of Lab at the University of Nottingham, with a focus on centring lived experience in Nottingham-based research and policy.
- Became Book Reviews Editor for Discourse Studies.
- Reviewed papers for Pragmatics and Society, Forum for Linguistic Studies, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, and Discourse, Context & Media.
- Gave a guest lecture to students at Newcastle on TikTok and mental health.
2022-2023
- Co-organiser of Discourse and Politics Conference on Discursive Approaches to Crisis.
- Research Assistant with the Digital Transformation Hub, University of Nottingham – reviewing scripts about Gale Digital Scholar Lab tools.
- Reviewed book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan.
- Reviewed papers for British Politics, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and a chapter for Pandemic Perspectives.
- Became Chair of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Student Committee.
2021-2022
- Passed PRINCE2 Foundation exam.
- Reviewed paper for Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies.
2020-2021
- Successfully applied to have the Journal of Languages, Texts & Society indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Co-organiser of a collaboration between Journey to Justice and the Discourse and Politics Seminar Series, focused on sharing the stories of lived experience activism with academics.
- Teaching affiliate for the School of English, University of Nottingham (marking and feedback at UG level).
- Guest lecturer on Corpus and Discourse Studies for the MA Corpus Linguistics module at the University of Nottingham.
- Co-organiser of the Midlands4Cities Research Festival 2021.
- Co-organiser of the Discourse and Politics Seminar Series 2021.
- Student committee member, Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Blog editor, Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Issue Management Editor for the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society (Issue 5).
- Middle-stage postgraduate research representative, Learning Community Forum (School of English).
- Peer mentor to two postgraduate taught students in the School of English, University of Nottingham.
- Managed the social media and WordPress for the Discourse and Politics Seminar Series 2021 – a series I co-organised with a fellow M4C student.
2019-2020
- Peer Review Editor for the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society (Issue 4).
- Early-stage postgraduate research representative, Learning Community Forum (School of English).
- Peer reviewed a research article for the Journal of Languages, Texts and Society.
2018-2019
- Research assistant for the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham.
- Research assistant for the Marginalised Families Online project.
- Designer of ‘The Voices of Women Leaders in Africa‘ project booklet for the Language, Gender and Leadership Network.
- Web administrator for the Language, Gender and Leadership Network.
- MA English Studies representative, Learning Community Forum(School of English).
Pre-2018
- Co-Editor of the Welcome to Nottingham guide published by LeftLion Magazine (2017)
- Editor in Chief of Impact Magazine (2016-2017)
- News Editor for Impact Magazine (2015-2016)
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