This website is a short introduction to me, Barbara Clark, and what I do.

I have recently successfully defended my thesis (available here), and submitted the final version to my university, Queen Mary, University of London. 

My research interests include institutional discourse, language and gender-stereotyped occupations, workplace language, situated language use, and practical applications of discourse analysis. I would like the findings of my thesis to contribute toward a safer commercial aviation industry.

Looking beyond my thesis, I aim to work in academic, industry, and public-sector settings, investigating how people use language on a daily basis, and how this situated language use contributes to notions of identity, community, and interpersonal relations.

You can contact me at b.l.clark@qmul.ac.uk.

I’m on Twitter at @drjavafox - At the moment, I tweet in a personal capacity, and not only about linguistics.

Thanks for stopping by my website and having a look around!