International Health Humanities Network Membership

I work in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. My training is in the study of literary language. Over time I have developed a number of interests at the interface between language, narrative and health, including:

- Narratives of autism in fiction

- Metaphor and cancer

- Metaphor and depression

- Metaphor, metonymy and the expression chronic pain (including in visual images)

- Metaphor in End-of-Life Care (ESRC-funded project with four Lancaster colleagues: Andrew Hardie, Veronika Koller, Sheila Payne and Paul Rayson)