Conferences
This page includes conferences I have presented at and attended.
For each conference, you can read more about my experience and in most cases view the abstract.
For each conference, you can read more about my experience and in most cases view the abstract.
Conference Presentations
- Ford, S. & Guan, Y. (2022). Making cross-cultural meaning in educational smartphone app icons with metonymies and metaphors. Researching and Applying Metaphor (Virtual RaAM), University of Bialystok, Poland, September 2022.
- Ford, S. (2022). Taking responsibility: The power of figurative communication in sports advertising and its role in tackling social issues of equality and mental health. M4C Research Festival. University of Nottingham, UK, June 2022.
- Ford, S. (2022). A whistle-stop tour of my PhD thesis on multimodal figurative communication, creativity, and collaboration. Language and Cognitive at the University of Birmingham (LACAB), June 2022.
- Turner, S., Littlemore, J., & Ford, S. (2021) Talking Taboos Dialogue Day: Symposium on language-based research on sensitive topics, University of Birmingham, UK, September 2021.
- Ford, S. (2021). Exploring the use and evolution of figurative creativity in health and fitness brands’ advertising prior to and during the COVID-crisis. Researching and Applying Metaphor (Virtual RaAM), Vilnius University, Lithuania, June 2021. Awarded: Best PhD Presentation Prize, sponsored by John Benjamin’s Publishing.
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Invited talks:
Attended
- Birmingham English Language Postgraduate Conference, 29th April 2022
- King’s College Open Science Research Conference, 11th June 2020
- ReproducibiliTEA Virtual Meeting: How can ECRs influence research culture and integrity? University of Surrey, 29th May 2020
- Statistics for Linguists Summer School, University of Birmingham, 17th-21st June 2019; Attended as Events Ambassador and delegate
- Creative Power of Metaphor, University of Oxford, UK, 29th-30th March 2019
- Statistics for Linguists Summer School, University of Birmingham, 4th-8th June 2018; Attended as Events Ambassador and delegate, learning about statistical analysis using R software and coding
- Colour and Form in the Disordered Mind, University of Birmingham, UK, 3rd-4th May 2018
- Public Engagement Day, 17th April 2018, University of Birmingham, UK
- Cognitive Approaches to Language in Education, University of Glasgow, UK, 18th-19th January 2018; Contributed to Maths, Music, and Metaphor presentation by Professor Jeannette Littlemore through UGRS (Undergraduate Research Scholarship)
- Corpus Linguistics Summer School, University of Birmingham, UK, 17th-21st July 2017; Attended as Events Ambassador and delegate, working with corpus software including 'R', CPQ, WordSmith, and Notepad++ to create macro commands