On 6th February 2018, I started working with Professor Jeannette Littlemore and Dr Paula Perez-Sobrino on a collaborative project with a local Birmingham advertising agency, Big Cat Agency. The project aims to investigate how figurative messaging can impact people's responses to advertising campaigns through the 

On Friday 6th April 2018, I attended and presented at the Birmingham English Language Postgraduate (BELP) conference. The conference theme was 20 Years in English Language and Linguistics: Critical Reflections and Future Directions with plenary speakers Professor Susan Hunston OBE and Professor Alice Deignan. In my presentation, Surf on 4-inch stilettos": Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Mobile Phone Advertising, I talked about the 

Read the presentation abstract here: ​