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Dr Helen Sauntson

Senior Lecturer English Language & Linguistics

BA (University of Central England, 1994)

PGCE (University of Birmingham, 1995)

PhD (University of Birmingham, 2001)

Contact details

E: h.sauntson@yorksj.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)1904 876880

Profile Teaching Professional Activities Research & Publications

 

My main research activities are in the areas of: classroom discourse analysis; language, gender and sexuality; language in education; gender and sexuality in education.

  • I am the author of Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse (Palgrave, 2012) and (with Liz Morrish) New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity (Palgrave, 2007).
  • I am the co-editor (with Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland) of Gender and Language Research Methodologies (Palgrave, 2008) and (with Sakis Kyratzis) Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Palgrave, 2007).
  • I am currently undertaking research investigating discursive constructions of sexuality in educational contexts. I regularly liaise with and disseminate my research on sexuality and education to Stonewall UK (gay rights organisation) who use academic research to lobby the government about sexuality equality issues in various contexts. My language, sexuality and education work has also been used by the National Union of Teachers, Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Youth Service to inform anti-homophobic bullying initiatives in schools and to lobby the government about addressing homophobia in schools. I am a member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, the British Educational Research Association, and the International Gender and Language Association.
  • Other research activities include editorial board membership of the Journal of Language and Sexuality. I also regularly review submissions for the following academic journals: Gender and Education; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Journal of Pragmatics. I have acted as a reviewer for the ESRC grants board and Palgrave Macmillan publisher. I am a member of the conference organising committee for the Annual Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics (held at American University, Washington DC, USA). I am regularly involved with the BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Gender and Language Special Interest Group and the BERA (British Educational Research Association) Sexualities Special Interest Group.