Explainers are a relatively new genre increasingly used to provide readers with background
information, disseminate specialised knowledge and enhance public outreach. These …

The Covid-19 pandemic has served to bring to light the importance of disseminating health-
related research results to a non-specialist public, in line with the democratization of science …

Covid‐19 was the greatest public health crisis of a century, accounting for millions of deaths
and initiating an urgent surge of published biomedical research. In this climate of social …

In this chapter, Hazel Price describes her work in the area of health communication,
specifically, her research on the language of mental health and illness and how these topics …

This article examines the emerging cultural patterns in reporting a pandemic in waiting
(avian influenza) as instantiated in the news discourse of the British press, more particularly …

This is a groundbreaking book. It is groundbreaking in the field of applied linguistics and
groundbreaking too in the field of health communication research. The book challenges a …

There are clear differences in the way written information on health issues presents research
findings. In some cases, the source of a piece of information (eg “expert professor”) is …

Hospitals serve as a public space for medical practice. They also serve as an educational
space. Effective, transparent, and timely delivery of health information is important at all …

: Lynne Murphy had her own impact agenda before the Powers That Be started defining
impact as part of research assessment. This chapter gives a personal account of motivations …

This article explores how the 2009 pandemic of swine flu (H1N1) intersected with issues of
biosecurity in the context of an increasing entanglement between the spread of disease and …