In this third Spotlight video of the series, Dr Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) talks with Dr Olga Zayts-Spence, who is the Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (HKU CHM), Fo…

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In this second Spotlight video of the series, Dr Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) talks with Professor May O. Lwin, who is a Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information…

This concise volume spotlights an innovative computer-aided approach to linguistic analyses of HPV vaccination discourse on Twitter. The book features a new corpus linguistic technique, developed by t...

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This year, we’re looking to showcase some of the excellent work being done on health and science communication through an online seminar series that aims to grapple with some of the key challenges …

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

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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.

I wrote what follows in 2012. Now it's 2021, I can't believe it, and we are living in a time when science has become a matter of survival. We are living through the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines have been developed at speed to help us get out of this mess. Music and songs have helped us along the way, just like science.

Dr Beth Malory (UCL English) will join five other early career researchers chosen by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to shape programming on BBC Radio 4, bringing new ideas...

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Previous work identified a new type of vaccine scepticism on social media centred around questioning the status of the COVID-19 vaccine as a vaccine, …

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Post-pandemic, a new type of vaccine scepticism has emerged online that claims certain vaccines are not “real vaccines” – finds research co-authored by Dr Zsófia Demjén with Lancaster University.

Post-pandemic, a new type of vaccine scepticism has emerged online that claims certain vaccines are not “real vaccines” – finds research co-authored by Dr Zsófia Demjén with Lancaster University.

The COVID pandemic triggered a new kind of vaccine scepticism shared by people who normally take up vaccines – here’s why that’s a problem.

Vaccination programmes in 90 % of countries in the world have been affected by ‘vaccine hesitancy’. Childhood vaccinations are particularly important.…

PhD Project - The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations. at Lancaster University, listed on ...

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This year’s workshop series has a particular interest in discussing concerns around social justice, health inequalities, language diversity and inclusion. The event will span two days (schedu…