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Luke Collins is a Research Associate working on the ESRC-funded project, 'Climate change as a complex social issue' http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/projects/climate-change/index.aspx.

Luke recently submitted his doctoral thesis exploring the concept of empowerment in families of deaf children through the delivery of a video-based intervention. In this work, he used discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to look for evidence of perspective transformation in transcribed conversational data taken from sessions of parents' reflections on video data.

Luke developed his skills in literary linguistics through studying English Studies as an undergraduate at the University of Nottingham, as well as developing an interest in the languages of medieval England. This led to his AHRC-funded Masters in Norse and Viking Studies, where Luke took a stylistic approach to examining runic inscriptions found on artefacts of bone and wood from the Viking Age.