Dr Shuang Gao PhD

Senior Lecturer English

    About

    Personal Statement

    I'm a sociolinguist working at the Department of English, University of Liverpool. My research uses linguistic ethnography and discourse analysis to understand the relationship between language, social change, and social inequality, focusing on language and globalisation, English in China, sociolinguistics of tourism, multilingualism, and, more recently, language and food, language and race, language and social media.

    PhD Supervision: I welcome application from students interested in the above research areas. Please feel free to email me with your CV and Research Proposal for an initial discussion. Here're the PhD entry requirements

    Semester 2, AY2023-24 Academic Support and Feedback Hours: 11am-12pm, 2-3pm Thursdays

    Prizes or Honours

    • Editor's Choice (Discourse, Context & Media, 2022)
    • Senior Fellow HEA (Advance HE, 2021)

    Other Personal Distinctions

    • Fellowship (Higher Education Academy, UK, 2018)
    • Ton Vallen Award (Babylon Center, the Netherlands, 2017)