Brigitte Nerlich
My kind of place
Emeritus Professor of Science, Language, and Society
brigitte.nerlich@nottingham.ac.uk
twitter: @BNerlich
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I am Emeritus Professor of Science, Language, and Society at the Institute for Science and Society (School of Sociology and Social Policy). I studied French and philosophy in Germany and gained a DrPhil in French linguistics. After a postdoc in general linguistic at Oxford I moved to Nottingham. My current research focuses on the cultural and political contexts in which metaphors and other framing devices are used in the public, policy and scientific debates about synthetic biology and climate change. I have written books and articles on the history of linguistics, semantic change, metaphor, metonymy, polysemy and, more recently, the sociology of health and illness and the social study of science and technology. In 2011 the University of Nottingham awarded me a DLitt for my research and publications relating to the social study of metaphor.
Albert Camus: "Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter au malheur de ce monde."
Blog: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6617-7827
Academia.edu webpage: http://nottingham.academia.edu/BrigitteNerlich
Google scholar profile: http://tinyurl.com/ku8kl8p
Twitter: @BNerlich
Recent research projects:
3D Printing with atoms, funded by the EPSRC, PI Philip Moriarty, 2016-2019
Making Science Public, funded by a Leverhulme Trust programme grant, 2012-2017 (honorary associate)
Synthetic Biology Research Centre funded by the BBSRC and the EPSRC, 2014-2018 (Social Science lead, Responsible Research and Innovation (honorary associate) There is a separate website for images and visualisations in science and society.
Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions
Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Richard Elliott, and Brendon Larson, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009
The Social and Cultural Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK in 2001: Experiences and Analyses
Edited by Martin Döring and Brigitte Nerlich, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009
More books can be found here.
PROJECTS and project related publications
Programme of Research: Making Science Public, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2012-2017)
From Greenhouse effect to climategate, funded by the ESRC (2011-2014)
Articles related to this project - see here
UK media representations of carbon capture and storage
Images of extreme weather: Symbolising human responses to climate change
Contesting science by appealing to its norms: Readers discuss climate science in The Daily Mail.
Climate change and 'climategate' in online reader comments: A mixed methods study.
Metaphors_we_die_by?_Geoengineering_metaphors_and_the_argument_from_catastrophe
When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988 (online first)
'Carbon compounds' - 'carbon language' - project website
Articles related to this project
Climategate': Paradoxical Metaphors and Political Paralysis
'Low carbon diet': Reducing the complexities of climate change to human scale
Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: A new chapter in green mythology?
Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication
Theory and language of climate change communication
From Carbon Markets to Carbon Morality: Creative Compounds as Framing Devices
Nanotechnology - Articles related to this topic
Biomilitarism and nanomedicine: Evil metaphors for the good of human health?
Imag(in)ing the Nano-scale: Interactions between Science and Art
The visual construction of nanoscience, entry in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (Book)
Powered by imagination: Nanbots at the Science Photo Library
You can find more info about visualisation in science here
Genetics, genomics, stem cells, synthetic biology - Articles related to this topic
Synthetic biology: Building the language for a new science brick by old metaphorical brick
Genomics: shifts in metaphorical landscape between 2000 and 2003
The book of life: how the human genome project was revealed to the public
The microbiome and its metaphors
Cloning and popular cultural imagery
Cloning, fiction, fantasy, fears
Infectious diseases, hygiene and biosecurity - Articles related to this topic
Crying wolf? Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic
Conceptualising biosecurity – the case of swine flu
Avian Flu: The creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media.
Modern matrons and infection control practices: aspirations and realities
Hygiene and biosecurity: The language and politics of risk (MRSA and avian flu)
MRSA and the post-antibiotic apocalypse?
The 'ins and outs' of biosecurity (avian infuenza)
Health, hygiene and biosecurity: Conflicting knowledge claims in the UK poultry industry
Conceptualising foot and mouth disease…
The social and cultural impact of the 2001 outbreak
Hand hygiene - the GloYo - a children's educational toy
more info here
COVID
Social representations of social distancing
Social representations, identity threat and coping amid Covid19
Lots of blog posts
Food and Environment - Articles related to this topic
Discourse analysis of probiotic web advertising
Balancing Food Risks and Food Benefits: the Coverage of Probiotics in the UK National Press
Past publications on metaphor, metonymy, polysemy, and so on