Brigitte Nerlich

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Professor of Science, Language and Society

University of Nottingham

United Kingdom

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Brigitte Nerlich is a Professor of Science, Language and Society at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the social representations of health and disease, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the implications of environmental issues in media discourse, such as biochar and greenhouse gas removal. Recent works include analyses of language and metaphors in public health communication and the portrayal of science in news media.

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Aleksandra Stelmach

University of Exeter

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Catherine Price

University of Nottingham

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Sarah Hartley

University of Exeter

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Stevienna de Saille

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University of Sheffield

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Rusi Jaspal

University of Brighton

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Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping

Biochar in the British print news media: an analysis of promissory discourse and the creation of expectations about carbon removal

Biochar in the UK Print News Media: Issue Frames and Their Implications for Opening up Debate About Land-based Greenhouse Gas Removal

Social representations of COVID-19 skeptics: denigration, demonization, and disenfranchisement

From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mud, metaphors and politics

From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic

Framing the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: Metaphors, Images and Symbols

Gene Drives in the U.K., U.S., and Australian Press (2015–2019): How a New Focus on Responsibility Is Shaping Science Communication

Gene drive communication: exploring experts’ lived experience of metaphor use

Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media

Genome editing: the dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life

Encounters between Life and Language: Codes, Books, Machines and Cybernetics

Social representations, identity threat, and coping amid COVID-19.

How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration

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Aleksandra Stelmach

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Stevienna de Saille

Rusi Jaspal

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