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Dr. Jane Mulderrig is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield's School of English, where she serves as Director of the MA in Applied Linguistics and Director of International Affairs. She joined the department in 2010 after postdoctoral positions at Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities, bringing extensive expertise in critical discourse analysis and political theory to investigate power dynamics in public policy.
Her educational background includes a PhD from Lancaster University (ESRC doctoral studentship) supervised by Professors Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak, followed by an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship. Her research centers on the strategic role of policy discourse in recontextualizing political ideologies within advanced liberal economies, with four major projects examining education policy neoliberalization, ageing discourse, 'nudge' tactics in governance, and press freedom ethics across Europe.
Recent publications reveal a strong interdisciplinary trajectory blending critical discourse analysis with political theory, particularly focusing on 'nudge' mechanisms in health policy, freedom of the press debates, and ageing representations. Her work consistently employs corpus linguistics and multimodal analysis to expose how language constructs social identities and legitimates power structures, with increasing emphasis on cross-national comparative frameworks since 2018.
- ESRC Doctoral Studentship (£34,000 + fees)
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (£58,000)
- Arts Enterprise grant (£3,000)
- AHRC grant (£500,000)
Mulderrig actively supervises PhD candidates including Lucie Rees (WRoCAH scholar), Nouf Alotaibi, Rosa Escanes-Sierra (ESRC scholar), and Bridie Moore. She convenes the Sheffield Critical Discourse Studies Research group (SCADS), fostering regional collaboration among CDA scholars, and leads the AHRC-funded 'Defining Freedom of the Press' project involving interdisciplinary teams from multiple UK universities.
Her teaching portfolio spans undergraduate 'Discourse Analysis' and 'Corpus Linguistics' courses, plus MA-level instruction in English Grammar, Intercultural Communication, and Research Methods, reflecting her commitment to training the next generation of discourse analysts through both theoretical and methodological rigor.
