Dr Emma Franklin
Lecturer in English Linguistics
- Email:
- emma.franklin@bcu.ac.uk
Emma is a corpus linguist and lexicologist with expertise in corpus lexicography, critical discourse analysis and narrative strategy. Her research spans a range of topics across critical and applied linguistics, with a particular emphasis on ecolinguistics, critical animal studies, posthumanism and linguistic representations of the more-than-human world.
After completing her PhD at Lancaster University, Emma worked as a postdoctoral research associate for the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Sheffield, where she co-created practical guidance on communications around plastics and developed scholarly initiatives around posthumanist sustainability.
Following this, she lectured in Corpus-Based Digital Humanities for the University of Wolverhampton’s Responsible Digital Humanities Lab, part of the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, for which she was also the safeguarding and wellbeing officer.
Emma’s professional experience includes research, both inside and outside academia; teaching in further and higher education; working in child safeguarding and online safety, in the private sector; contributing narrative strategy to nonprofit organisations; providing linguistic consultancy and academic mentoring; and more than a decade’s experience of working in a world-leading computational linguistics research group.