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Simon Statham is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University Belfast, teaching undergraduate courses including Introduction to English Language, Language and Power, and Language in the Media, alongside postgraduate modules such as Discourses of Crime and Deviance. He actively supervises PhD students in critical discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, and language in media contexts.
His research centers on Critical Discourse Analysis, Stylistics, and Forensic Linguistics, with emphasis on multimodal analysis of language in crime, law, and media. Recent work examines Irish socio-legal discourses, abortion narratives, courtroom representations of sexual assault, and television semiotics, often intersecting with Irish Studies and gender politics. His scholarship employs linguistic frameworks to decode power dynamics in public discourse and institutional settings.
Statham's publication trajectory shows consistent output since 2015, accelerating significantly after 2020 with focus on contemporary socio-legal controversies. His work demonstrates methodological coherence in applying discourse analysis to media representations of crime, law, and Irish political landscapes, increasingly incorporating multimodal approaches to digital and visual rhetoric.
His scientific recognition includes:
- Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (2019)
As an academic supervisor, Statham guides postgraduate research in linguistics and discourse studies while maintaining robust scholarly engagement through conference presentations, editorial work for journals like Language and Literature and Text & Talk, and peer review activities across criminology and linguistics publications. His academic service extends to PhD examinations and public lectures on language and society.
