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Dr Laura Coffey-Glover is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics within the Department of Humanities, School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). She joined NTU in September 2016 after teaching positions at Sheffield Hallam University and the Universities of Manchester, Edge Hill, Liverpool Hope, and Huddersfield, where she completed her PhD on masculinity in women's magazines.
Her research centers on language, gender, and sexuality, employing corpus linguistic methods integrated with critical discourse analysis and queer linguistic approaches. She critically examines media representations of gender/sexuality, with key projects including a Palgrave Macmillan book on women's magazine masculinities, collaborative work with the Discourses of Marriage Research Group analyzing same-sex marriage debates, and audience response studies to cultural phenomena like 'Blurred Lines'.
Her 14 publications (2015-2023) reveal consistent interdisciplinary focus on gendered discourse across breastfeeding narratives, Disney hero representations, men's skincare advertising, and UK press debates. These works demonstrate methodological innovation through corpus-aided critical analysis of media texts, highlighting how linguistic patterns reinforce or challenge gender/sexual ideologies in contemporary culture.
Scientific Awards: None listed.
Dr Coffey-Glover has supervised PhD research including P.T. Lee's 2021 thesis on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. She actively recruits postgraduate students for projects combining corpus linguistics with gender/sexuality studies. Her collaborative projects (e.g., Discourses of Marriage Research Group) indicate engagement with externally funded research initiatives, including seminars supported by the British Association of Applied Linguistics and Cambridge University Press.
She is a core member of NTU's Inequality, Culture and Difference research centre and co-founded the UK-based Discourses of Marriage Research Group, which has organized funded seminars analyzing marriage representations in media. Her editorial role for the Journal of Language and Discrimination and regular conference presentations demonstrate active scholarly engagement in critical discourse and gender linguistics communities.
