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I am a doctoral researcher working in the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics, part of the School of English at the University of Nottingham. I am broadly interested in the connection between discourse and social life, particularly in relation to health and wellbeing. My doctoral research uses corpus linguistic techniques to examine the discourses surrounding diabulimia - a disorder in which individuals with type 1 diabetes deliberately restrict their recommended insulin dosage to achieve radical weight loss - in the context of online support groups. I am also interested in health promotion and pharmaceutical advertising, and examine these through the scope of multimodal critical discourse analysis. I have worked as Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (published by John Benjamins) since 2012.