All Outputs (6)

Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain (2023)
Journal Article

Established representations of donkeys in western literature and popular culture have often been negative, portraying the animals as stupid, inept, and bad tempered. To understand whether such representations are reflected in contemporary understandi... Read More about Invisible Animals: Exploring Public Discourses to Understand the Contemporary Status of Donkeys in Britain.

Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging (2023)
Journal Article

Understanding how smallscale (‘backyard’) poultry keepers interpret and respond to governmental directives designed to reduce the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is of paramount importance in preparing for future HPAI outbrea... Read More about Exploring the responses of smallscale poultry keepers to avian influenza regulations and guidance in the United Kingdom, with recommendations for improved biosecurity messaging.

A Privacy-Preserving Observatory of Misinformation using Linguistic Markers - A Work in Progress (2023)
Conference Proceeding

Online misinformation is a serious problem that can have a negative impact on individuals, societies, and democracies. It can lead to the spread of false information, the erosion of trust in institutions, and the polarisation of political discourse.... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Observatory of Misinformation using Linguistic Markers - A Work in Progress.

UK Flockdown: Exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers surrounding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) (2023)
Working Paper

The scale of the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) due to the A/H5N1 virus in the United Kingdom is unprecedented. In addition to its economic impact on the commercial poultry sector, the disease has devastated wild bird co... Read More about UK Flockdown: Exploring the knowledge, attitudes and practices of backyard poultry keepers surrounding Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).

The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

Understanding what makes communication effective when designing public health messages is of key importance. This applies in particular to vaccination campaigns, which aim to encourage vaccine uptake and respond to vaccine hesitancy and dispel any my... Read More about The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19.

Communicating health threats: Linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Report