Linguistics, University of Birmingham
Thesis title:
Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2022). 'Lights in the darkness', part 1: Characterising effective communication with healthcare practitioners following the death of a child. Mortality, 0(0), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2022.2081495
Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2022). 'Lights in the darkness', part 2: Characterising effective communication with professional groups following the death of a child. Mortality, 0(0), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2022.2081496
Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Taylor, J., Parr, E., & Topping, A. E. (2022). Metaphors that shape parents' perceptions of effective communication with healthcare practitioners following child death: A qualitative UK study. BMJ Open, 12(1), e054991. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054991
Organised:
2023 Maternal Bodies Symposium (M4C-funded CDA) - co-organiser/lead applicant
2022-23 Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference - co-organiser
2021 Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference - social coordinator
Presented:
“What a rollercoaster of a pregnancy”: Using dynamic metaphor tracking to analyse discussions of pregnancy experience online - Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference 2023 (oral presentation)
Using moving metaphor density to analyse discussions of pregnancy experience online - Semmelweis Medical Linguistics Conference 2023 (oral presentation)
Using moving metaphor density to analyse discussions of pregnancy experience online - Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference 2023 (oral presentation)
'I feel like I’m letting my new employer down': An Analysis of Sexism and Ableism in Pregnancy Discourse on Mumsnet Talk - #GenderChallenge21 ('lightening' oral presentation)
“Fucker kills you fast”: A corpus assisted analysis of opinion in tweets about the COVID-19 pandemic – Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference 2021 (poster presentation)
Pregnancy as a temporary disability: an analysis of sexism, ableism and identity in pregnancy discourse – Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain Conference 2021 (oral presentation)
Using metaphor analysis to inform improved communication with parents or carers whose child has died - UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2020 (oral presentation; with Jeannette Littlemore and Sarah Turner)
True Colours Trust study into communication received by bereaved parents:
Littlemore, J., Turner, S., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2021). Communicating effectively when helping parents to organise a funeral for their child. https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/publications/communicating-effectively-when-helping-parents-to-organise-a-fune
Littlemore, J., Turner, S., Parr, E., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2021). 'He was very kind and you know, very understanding and sympathetic and said the right things. It's a sort of gift isn't it?': Communicating effectively when helping parents to organise a funeral for their child. https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/he-was-very-kind-and-you-know-very-understanding-and-sympathetic-and-said-the-right-things-its-a-sort-of-gift-isnt-it(0797d482-d11e-4f15-aad3-79c9c884f5b9).html
Parr, E., Littlemore, J., Turner, S., Taylor, J., & Topping, A. (2020). Communicating effectively with parents whose child has died. https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/communicating-effectively-with-parents-whose-child-has-died(1ab3ab9d-5172-43da-8ca4-d3ea348c991b).html
Turner, S., Littlemore, J., Parr, E., & Taylor, J. (2021). Maintaining identity is important. https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/maintaining-identity-is-important(2e77b659-09e8-4812-90d8-61ccdd60da36).html
Other public engagement publications:
Parr, E. (2022, April). From Mums to Incels: Gender and Internet Identity Analysis Through Corpus Linguistics. U-Lingua, Spring 2022(8), 12–13. https://issuu.com/u-lingua/docs/u-lingua_issue_5_v6
Parr, E. (2021, July). It's All Relative. U-Lingua, Summer 2021(Issue 5), 26–27. https://issuu.com/u-lingua/docs/issue_8_forweb
British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) - Febraury 2021 to present
Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) - June 2020 to present
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