Conflict Tipping Podcast Episode 10: Tamsin Parnell on Discourse and Division

November 8, 2022

In this episode, Laura interviews Tamsin Parnell, a linguistics researcher whose doctoral work focuses on identities, discourses, and division around Brexit.

Tamsin is a research associate at the University of Warwick, visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University, and is interested in media and political discourses.

In this episode, Tamsin (and her cat Willow!) join Laura to talk about Brexit, covid-19, immigration, and how to reduce inflammatory speech and division.

Tamsin’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsinparnell
Tamsin’s twitter: @tamsinparnell

Tamsin Parnell

I am a second-year PhD student using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CADS) to explore constructions of British and European identities in government documents, pro-Brexit newspapers, and interviews with Nottinghamshire residents. I am a Learning Community Forum representative for second-year PhD students in the School of English, a peer mentor to… MORE >

Laura May

Laura is a freelancer, former Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute and a negotiation and mediation lecturer. Her doctoral research asked “in what ways does blame make villains in politics” and covered the gamut from literature studies and linguistics to psychology and neuroscience, victimology to political science. Her expertise includes emotions,… MORE >