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A British Association for Applied Linguistics special interest group (SIG), Health and Science Communication (HSC) provide a specialist forum for the development of research at the intersection of applied linguistics and health/science communication.

‼️ Deadline Extension ‼️ The deadline to submit abstracts for our 2026 webinar has now been extended to Monday, March 9th @ 5pm We’d love to hear from you!

📣 Just one week to go to the deadline for submissions to our 2026 webinar series. If you’re working on research addressing key topics in the fields of health & science communication, we want to hear from you!

📣 Join us today at 12:00 (UK time) for the second event in the series, titled: Exploring Lived Experience 👇Details and sign up link below:

For those of you who attended our webinar on May 7th (and anyone else interested!) Our speaker, Dr. Tamsin Parnell, was unfortunately unable to deliver her talk on reporting around AI psychosis. However, she has very kindly made her slides available here 👇 Thank you @tamsinparnell.bsky.social!

📣 Join us tomorrow (May 21st @ 12-13:30pm UK time) for the final event in our webinar series, on the theme of ‘Medical Communication’ 👇 Full details and sign up link below

Join us tomorrow (May 7th) for the first event in our webinar series: ‘Interrogating health in the public sphere’ ⏱️ Note: Due to a schedule change, the May 7th webinar will now take place at 12:30 - 13:30 (UK time) Sign up link below 👇

📣 Our 2026 webinar series 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀 is here! 🗓️ Events will take place on the 7th, 14th and 21st May @ 12:00-13:30 (UK time) 📌 Programme, registration details and book of abstracts: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/2...

If you would like to know more about our work on social media and eating disorders, you can sign up for our CPD-certified workshop with Beat: www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/get-informat...

This year, we are showcasing some of the excellent work being done on health and science communication through an online seminar series that aims to grapple with some of the key challenges and oppo…

Join Dr Heike Bartel and Dr Tamsin Parnell, alongside other expert speakers, for a virtual workshop exploring the relationship between social media, e

Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’ We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you. The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026. wp.me/pcqSKn-dv

I was very sad to miss the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG webinar I was due to present at on 7 May. I have made the slides of my talk available on ResearchGate @baal-health-sig.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our team, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and @emma-putland.bsky.social, have a new chapter with Kevin Harvey! 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites' Interested? You can read the author copy here wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

So EDIFY is shaping a fresh approach to eating disorders. For example, their analysis of social media has provided insights into how social media affects young people. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41419991/ #AMHDMshowcase

After the excitement of last week’s book launch, here's a blog from our team that lifts the lid on how corpus linguistics can be used to explore illness and healthcare. A look at the methods, the hurdles, and the insights along the way: cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

This year, we’re looking to showcase some of the excellent work being done on health and science communication through an online seminar series that aims to grapple with some of the key challenges …

PDF | AI psychosis, according to Hudon and Stip (2025: n.p.) is ‘a framework to understand how sustained engagement with conversational AI systems might... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.