I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lou Symons about my new book Fought Disorder and Mental Health Awareness Week for BBC Upload. You can listen to the interview on the BBC website here or through my YouTube recording below.
I’m a linguist based in the UK.
My early degrees were in stylistics, which is about linguistic expression and interpretation.
My PhD is on formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. I use corpus, experimental, and machine learning methods to study language pathology at different levels, like word formation (morphology) and contextual meaning (pragmatics).
Like many linguists, I also work with non-verbal data.