Chris Tang

My research interests centre on the development and use of applied linguistic methodology and tools in public health communication, risk and disaster communication and language education contexts, particularly those situated in linguistically and culturally diverse environments.

My research experience centres on the development and conducting of projects that combine applied linguistic and social science methods and methodology to improve communication practices. Within a disaster risk reduction and public health domain, I am interested in the role of language, culture, (language) education and community networks as a means of engaging hard to reach groups with low literacy and English as an additional language. My most recent work has focused on applications of corpus linguistics and cognitive semantics in the assessment of health literacy within a project seeking to improve health and disaster risk communication about the dangers of heatwaves and cold spells.

I am co-founder and coordinator of the Corpus Research in Linguistics and Beyond seminar series. In addition to my academic work, I have over 15 years experience teaching English as a foreign language, completing the Department’s MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching in 2009.