Survey of English Usage,
University College London
Tel: +44 20 7679 8205
Publications
This page provides a snapshot of my publication record. For more information, you can click here to visit my publications page on the University College London website. If you are interested in policy-facing outputs and lay summaries, please head over to project reports.
Books, chapters, and journal articles
My research appears regularly in top-tier academic journals, including BMJ Applied Linguistics and Medical Humanities. This includes:
2025
My Element, Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss was published Open Access by Cambridge University Press in 2025. You can read it here.
2025
“It Just Made Me Feel Very Broken”: Misogyny and Discriminatory Hierarchisation in British English Pregnancy Loss Terminology, published with Dr Eloise Parr in Journal of Language and Discrimination.
2023
'Polarized Discourses of Abortion in English: A Corpus-based Study of Semantic Prosody and Discursive Salience' published in Applied Linguistics.
2022
'The transition from abortion to miscarriage to describe early pregnancy loss in British medical journals: a prescribed or natural lexical change?' published in BMJ Medical Humanities.
2022
Introducing Linguistics, edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Beth Malory, Claire Nance, Daniel van Olmen, Dimitrinka Atanasova, Sam Kirkham, and Aina Casaponsa, published by Routledge.
For a full list of publications, head to my UCL research profile.