Applied Linguistics — Sociolinguistics — Medical Humanities
How people make meaning
under conditions of uncertainty,
suffering, and transition.
That is the question underneath the work — infertility blogs, patient–AI communication, digital communities negotiating faith and identity. Language is where this becomes visible. I study it as evidence, not decoration.
Researching how language shapes lived experience — in infertility care, patient–AI interaction, identity, and belonging.
PhD, Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London·Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck·ORCID 0000-0002-6932-245X
I am a sociolinguist and applied linguist based in London, working at the intersection of narrative, health communication, and medical humanities. Most of what shapes a life happens in language too small, too informal, or too easily dismissed to count as evidence — a diagnosis, a clinic visit, a private grief shared at 2 a.m. on a blog nobody official will ever read. My research exists because I believe that smallness is where the meaning is.
Featured research
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Programme — 01
Language, Health & Care
A metaphor-led positioning analysis of infertility blogs by Muslim women, now extending into patient–AI communication during illness and recovery.
Current work
Seven papers currently under review extending the doctoral corpus — on heteronormative narrative, collective identity, staged small-stories methodology, discursive self-legitimation, and an analytic autoethnography of patient–AI communication during illness and recovery. Alongside this: a forthcoming book chapter on family digital intimacy for Digital Intimacies (Bloomsbury), and new work on epistemic positioning in online perimenopause narratives.
Latest
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Latest publication
“WTF Uterus?” Metaphors of the body as positioning in infertility blogs by Muslim women
Qualitative Health Research, 2026. Full record →
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Latest essay
The Discipline of Attention
On a seven-paper journey through identity, infertility, faith, and the new frontier of AI-mediated care.
News
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2026
Appointed Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London (October 2026 – September 2029).
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2026
“WTF Uterus?” published in Qualitative Health Research.
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2026
Health in Our Hands conference — led on the original concept, theme, and overall planning, and opened the day, as part of a four-person organising team.
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2025
“From offline to online stigma resistance” published in Narrative Inquiry.