John Currie

John Currie is a Doctoral Research Fellow affiliated with the Faculty of Teacher Education and Languages at Østfold University College and Gothenburg University. His research focuses on climate change discourse analysis, leveraging corpus linguistics and metaphor studies. He is part of the ELLA research programme exploring education, literature, and language.

Currie holds a Master’s in Communication from the University of Gothenburg and a Bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. He has taught English as a foreign language for several years. His PhD project examines how climate change is conceptualized in UK parliamentary discourses from 2015–2019, supervised by Daniel Lees Fryer and Ben Clarke.

His research outputs include analyses of conflict metaphors in climate policy debates and temporal trends in institutional discourse. Currie’s work bridges ecolinguistics with political discourse analysis, emphasizing the role of language in shaping environmental policy narratives.

He contributes to interdisciplinary teams within the ELLA programme and has presented findings at academic conferences. His current focus includes extending discourse analysis methodologies to broader institutional contexts.