Claudia Roberta Combei adopts a mixed-method approach in her research, combining computational, quantitative and qualitative techniques. Some of her recent publications include articles on figurative language, political and (social) media discourse, multimodality, and phonetics and phonology.
She coordinates (with Francesca Masini and Silvia Ballarè) the RadioCast-It speech corpus and she has participated in several funded projects: Progetto di Eccellenza "DIVE-IN Diversità & Inclusione" (initiative "Dipartimenti di Eccellenza" MIUR [L. 232 del 01/12/2016]) at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (University of Bologna); UNA Europa Project “Challenges to European Identities and Values in Digital Communities – CEIVINDICO” (initiative UNA Europa Seed Funding); Progetto PON D.M. 1062/2021 "ICT & Innovation: Il ruolo della fonetica sperimentale nello sviluppo e nell’implementazione di tecnologie vocali" (initiative "PON D.M. 1062/2021 - linea Innovazione" ), at the Department of Humanities (University of Pavia).
Member of the editorial board of journals and book series:
Bibliography of Metaphor and Metonymy -MetBib (John Benjamins Publishing);
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature, Springer);
Materiali Linguistici (FrancoAngeli).
From 2020 to 2022 she was the editorial assistant of the journal DIVE-IN – An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion.
In 2021, she joined the OED Researchers Advisory Group (Oxford Languages).
From 2019 she has reviewed for many national and international scientific conferences, journals, and book series.