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Yuze Sha

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Research Fellow @EdinburghUni | Corpus linguistics, public health communication, social media discourse, multimodality

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This will be great! We planned to hold the conference in HK, but with on-going problems in the Middle East the CL organising group thought we should switch venues. Thanks so much to Mark and Stefania for stepping in. It will be a great conference in a great location - Venice!
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excited to be in Malta for #IVACS2026 and honoured to have given a plenary this morning sharing reflections on the acts of Comparing and Contrasting in corpus linguistics! Huge thanks to Odette Vassallo and the team for the invitation and to Anne O'Keeffe for the very kind introduction!
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July
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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our new CUP Element on trust, discourse, and the Enron scandal is out and free to download! Download the book: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Watch the video abstract: vimeo.com/1125812463 Download the Enron Trader Tapes, annotated data and R code: osf.io/ngdhx
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Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New paper with @alicedeignan.bsky.social & @duygucandarli.bsky.social: 'Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials'. We show the difficulties that 10-12yo children can have with unfamiliar metaphorical uses of words in school. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials
Abstract Metaphor is used as a tool for communicating specialist knowledge to non-specialists in popular discourse and in educational contexts. Research has explored its use in higher education, but l...
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked 2nd in the world in the latest QS rankings! www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social
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Lancaster subjects are among best in the world with Linguistics ranked second - Lancaster University
Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked second in the world with ten other subjects in the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...
Cover slide for colloquium on AI in Applied Linguistics. Promises and Challenges.Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki opening the colloquium.This colloquium brings together experts from various applied linguistics fields to share their 
perspectives on AI:
▪ Corpus linguistics
▪ Global Englishes
▪ Intercultural communication
▪ Language teaching
▪ Second language acquisition

Contributions based on the latest issue of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL). This colloquium: Main themes
▪ Implicit bias in GenAI: A need for critical 
engagement
▪ David Wei Dai, Zhu Hua, & Guanling Chen
▪ Okim Kang & Kevin Hirschi
▪ Seongyong Lee, Jaeho Jeon, Jim MicKinley, & Heath 
Rose
▪ AI in L2 learning and teaching 
▪ Jerry Huang, Atsushi Mizumoto
▪ Shaohua Fang, ZhaoHong Han 
▪ Taking stock: Opportunities and challenge of AI 
and GenAI in applied linguistics
▪ Niall Curry, Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes
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Zsófia Demjén @zsofiademjen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Join the UCL Health Communication Network on March 17th for a talk by Dr Beth Malory: ‘British news media representations of the 2022 and 2024 mpox outbreaks: a corpus-assisted study’ More info and the link here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/health-comms...
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So exciting to see the latest title in the Corpus and Discourse series out now! I really enjoyed reading Viola's book, and I'm sure you all will too! @michamahlberg.bsky.social
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Languaging Crises @languaging-crises.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse.
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Yuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Thrilled to share that our research, “Gendered representations in swearing”, co-authored with my colleague Robin Vallery and my PhD supervisor @tonymcenery.bsky.social, has officially been published in Discourse Studies! 🤬🥳 Check it out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Discourse, Context and Media Journal @dcmjournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
📢New article out! 🟦 @shayuze.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social study user's stance and multimodal irony. 🟦They analyse comments on X to the UK's NHS Covid-19 policy posts. 🟦They prove the mediating role of affordances & offer a replicable method. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Out now: 'Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS COVID-19 messages' - article with @shayuze.bsky.social in Discourse, Context & Media. You can read it #openaccess through the link below. @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Yuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉 The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS COVID-19 messaging
This study investigates how multimodal irony is discursively constructed in the expression of stance and evaluation in comments responding to the UK N…
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...
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Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse. The volume builds on recent w...
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Yuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Many thanks to Professor Ursula Lutzky for inviting me to speak on multimodal social media corpus research @wuvienna.bsky.social yesterday. I felt genuinely excited to be there and really enjoyed the discussion and the great questions☺️
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’m at the Cabinet Office to talk about Polari today.
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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Join us at @uonenglish.bsky.social on 9th December for a talk by @elenasemino.bsky.social on Metaphors and Narratives in Health Communication! Register here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...
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Metaphors and narratives in health communication - The University of Nottingham
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A great talk by @paulari.bsky.social at @lancasteruni.bsky.social SHISU training event. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social
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Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Now @tonymcenery.bsky.social discussing #CorpusLinguistics and #epistemology. Questions about paradigms, reality and science as a process. A two-day workshop at Shisu in Shanghai starting today! @corpussocialsci.bsky.social
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/11/2025
“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language” In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
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LIP Research Group @liprg.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Location: MS Teams Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
New issue of Annual Review of Applied Linguistics out now - its theme is Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics. Well worth a look, plenty of open access content (full disclosure - I have a paper in it 😀): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest volume | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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Lancaster arts, humanities and social science colleagues in top 2% of scientists in the world - Lancaster University
Lancaster University’s Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is home to some of most influential researchers in the world. The latest Stanford/Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists in th...
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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Ov Cristian NOROCEL @norocel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.
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Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies
The Department of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within a larger division together with Sociology and Social Anthropology, situated at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. W
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...
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Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Beginning Day#3 with a keynote by the amazing @gavinbrookes.bsky.social #DHSS2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth” @gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning #DHSS2025
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We had two fantastic sessions this morning! – Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social – Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage Fantastic vibes all around! ✨ #DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities
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Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
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UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · 02/09/2025
Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online
Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Barbara Geralds Institute for Storytelling and Social Impact @bgstorytelling.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🎙️ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language 🗣️ and humor 😂 shape health experiences 💙.
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!
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Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026 – 23-25 June 2026
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Frazer Heritage @nounfraze.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉 My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames
Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New chapter out now on feminist protest and political change with @mchalu.bsky.social, in this important collection on language and gender in Eastern Europe, edited by @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Malgorzata Chalupnik @mchalu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Out now! @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and I on feminist protest and political change in Poland link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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From Streets to Sejm: Discourses of Feminist Protest and Political Change in Poland
The events surrounding Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike), the most massive gathering since the fall of communism, are said to have inaugurated a new form of feminism in...
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement #DHSS25 We’re pleased to announce our third keynote speaker: @gavinbrookes.bsky.social 🎤 Title: Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections 🗓️ 22–26 September 2025 🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school #dhss25
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So happy to share that I've been promoted to Reader in Languages and Linguistics at @manmetuni.bsky.social. I am so grateful for all the support from colleagues here and afar! 🥳🎊 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Join us in Lancaster! #CADS2026 @fau.de #MovingKnowledge
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We are excited to announce that our final speaker is... Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Lancaster University! You can read more about Elena and her work here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... #CAD2026
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The next plenary speaker we are excited to announce is... Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)! You can read more about Michaela and her research here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/person/prof-... #CADS2026i
Image of Michaela Mahlberg - plenary speaker at the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference.
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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What an absolute treat and honor to be invited to give a plenary at my favourite conference! 🤩 Thanks so much @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and all the #CADS2026 organizers for this invite. Can't wait!
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MANTRaP: Misogyny ANd The Red Pill @mantrap.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Women and Equalities Select Committee @commonswec.parliament.uk has accepted our team's evidence as part of it's public enquiry into 'Misogyny: the manosphere and online content' Read our submission below committees.parliament.uk/work/9089/mi...
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Misogyny: the manosphere and online content - Written evidence - Committees - UK Parliament
Written evidence submission publications for Misogyny: the manosphere and online content.
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