Professor Nelya Koteyko , MA, PhDProfessor of Language and CommunicationEmail: n.koteyko@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: 2.37, Francis BancroftProfileTeachingResearchPublicationsSupervisionPublic EngagementProfileResearch interests: digital identity, anthropology of autism and autistic sociality, linguistic ethnography, illness narratives, media representations of science and medicine The program of research I have developed draws on sociocultural linguistics and media studies to examine and theorise the relationship between media discourse and social identities. This includes a focus on the linguistic mechanisms underlying the media and policy framing of issues of public concern in terms of health risks, stigma, and trustworthiness. I am also interested in developing methodologies that take into account an interactional construction of digital identities. This research lies at the intersection of several disciplines such as applied linguistics, visual studies, human computer interaction design, and social psychology. Understanding the interplay between creative, user-led actions, social norms, and technological affordances is important for informing the strategies to foster inclusive digital environments and my two recent projects have focused on autism and social media. The ESRC-funded project Autistic Adults Online was a collaboration between linguists, human computer interaction designers, and autistic community aimed at improving autistic experiences of social media interactions. The ongoing Autism in Affinity Spaces project funded by the Wellcome Trust Discovery Award is another example of participatory research with autistic users of social media. It examines how autistic young people use language and other semiotic resources in social media groups related to their focused interests (e.g. art, comics, cosplay) and will develop creative methods to explore how they experience such interactions. TeachingI have convened the following modules at QM: Language and Health Communication Research Methods in Language Teaching Methods of Text and Corpus Analysis Research Methods in Applied Linguistics I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).ResearchExamples of research funding:2023 – 2029: PI Wellcome Trust Discovery Award “Autism in affinity spaces: Interest-driven social media practices during the transition to adulthood’ 2020-2023: Principal Investigator- ESRC standard grant 'Autistic adults online: enabling autistic sociality in digital networked environments'. Co-I Prof J Vines. Website: https://autisticadultsonline.com/ 2013 –2018: Work Package Leader - AHRC funded program ‘Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Wellbeing’. PI: Prof. P Crawford. 2013-2015: Principal Investigator – ESRC standard grant ‘Chronic illness and online networking: expectations, assumptions, and everyday realities’. Co-I: Prof B Gunter. 2013-2015: Visiting Researcher/collaborator on LINGCLIM Project. ‘Linguistic representations of climate change discourse and their individual and collective interpretations’ funded by SAMKUL-programme, Research Council of Norway. PI: Prof K. Flottum. 2011-14: Co-Investigator on the research project 'From Greenhouse Effect to Climategate: A systematic study of climate change as a complex social issue' funded by the ESRC and NWO ORA fund. 2008-2010: Co-Investigator on the ESRC-funded project "Carbon compounds': Lexical creativity and discourse formations in the context of climate change'. PI: Prof B Nerlich.Publications Koteyko N, Van Driel M, Billan S et al. (publicationYear). Stigma Management Strategies of Autistic Social Media Users. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1089/aut.2023.0095 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/94748 Koteyko N (2023). Understanding Autistic Adults’ Use of Social Media. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/3610048 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/90307 Koteyko N, Nelya K (2023). Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users. A toolkit for the third and public sector. nameOfConference DOI: 10.17636/10190412 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Atanasova D (publicationYear). Community and identity in environmental activism on Twitter: A discourse-based approach. nameOfConference DOI: 10.15845/bells.v13i1.3989 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/90306 Koteyko N, Barros Pena B, Van Driel M et al. (2023). "My Perfect PlatformWould Be Telepathy" - Reimagining the Design of Social Media with Autistic Adults. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580673 QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/84078 Van Driel M, Koteyko N (2023). Autistic Twitter Replies: CMC Acts and Communicative Functions. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/84077 Koteyko N, Van Driel M, Vines J (2022). Autistic sociality on Twitter: Enacted affordances and affiliation strategies. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/17504813211070655 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/74875 Koteyko N, van Driel M (2021). How can we design social media to be inclusive?. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/74450 Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2020). Fighting obesity, sustaining stigma: How can critical metaphor analysis help uncover subtle stigma in media discourse on obesity. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Hellsten I (2019). Introduction: Climate Change Communication and the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities for Research. nameOfConference DOI: 10.4324/9781315403625-1 QMRO: qmroHref Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Brown B et al. (2019). Mental health and the media: From illness to wellbeing. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12678 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Hunt D (2018). Special issue: Discourse analysis perspectives on online health communication. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.08.002 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54523 KOTEYKO N, ATANASOVA D (2018). Mental health advocacy on Twitter: Positioning in Depression Awareness Week tweets. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.04.007 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/39125 Pounds G, Hunt D, Koteyko N (2018). Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.01.008 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/35303 Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Brown B et al. (2017). Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007-2015.. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1363459317708823 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25656 (publicationYear). The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate. nameOfConference DOI: 10.4324/9781315456935 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Atanasova D (publicationYear). Discourse Analysis in Climate Change Communication. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.489 QMRO: qmroHref (publicationYear). The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language. nameOfConference DOI: 10.4324/9781315672953 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Hunt D (2016). Performing health identities on social media: An online observation of Facebook profiles. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2015.11.003 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13774 Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2017). Obesity frames and counter-frames in British and German online newspapers. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1363459316649764 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13390 Touri M, Koteyko N (2015). Using corpus linguistic software in the extraction of news frames: towards a dynamic process of frame analysis in journalistic texts. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.929878 QMRO: qmroHref Pearce W, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2015). Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/wcc.366 QMRO: qmroHref Hunt D, Koteyko N, Gunter B (2015). UK policy on social networking sites and online health: From informed patient to informed consumer?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/2055207615592513 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/23645 Hunt D, Koteyko N (2015). ‘What was your blood sugar reading this morning?’ Representing diabetes self-management on Facebook. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/0957926515576631 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/12162 Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Hellsten I (2015). Climate Change Communication and the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities for Research. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1029297 QMRO: qmroHref Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2017). Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change: War, Religion, and Politics. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1024705 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7922 Koteyko N, Hunt D, Gunter B (2015). Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: an analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12203 QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7937 Fløttum K, Gjesdal AM, Gjerstad Ø et al. (2014). Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.005 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Language and politics in post-Soviet Russia: A corpus assisted approach. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Evans V, Koteyko N (2011). Low carbon diet: Reducing the complexities of climate change to human scale. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1515/langcog.2011.003 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Analysis of Quantitative Trends. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_5 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Compilation of Specialised Corpora. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_4 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Concluding Thoughts. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_8 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Critical Studies of Health and Illness Discourses. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Diachronic Study of Paraphrases. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_6 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Introduction. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_1 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Metaphor Use in Political Speeches. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_7 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Perspectives on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_2 QMRO: qmroHref Gunter B, Koteyko N, Atanasova D (2014). Sentiment analysis: A market-relevant and reliable measure of public feeling?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.2501/ijmr-2014-014 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2014). Sociolinguistic Patterns and Discursive Stages in Post-Soviet Russia. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_3 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Ryazanova-Clarke L (2009). The Path and Building Metaphors in the Speeches of Vladimir Putin: Back to the Future?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1179/136174209x12507596634810 QMRO: qmroHref Jaspal R, Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2013). Contesting Science by Appealing to Its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in the Daily Mail. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1075547012459274 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Jaspal R, Nerlich B (2013). Climate change and 'climategate' in online reader comments: A mixed methods study. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00479.x QMRO: qmroHref Armstrong N, Koteyko N, Powell J (2012). 'Oh dear, should I really be saying that on here?': Issues of identity and authority in an online diabetes community. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1363459311425514 QMRO: qmroHref Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Gunter B (2012). Obesity in the news: Directions for future research. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.00985.x QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2012). Crying wolf? Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.02.008 QMRO: qmroHref Harvey K, Koteyko N (2012). Exploring Health Communication: Language in Action. nameOfConference DOI: 10.4324/9780203096437 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2012). Managing carbon emissions: A discursive presentation of 'market-driven sustainability' in the British media. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.11.001 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2010). Balancing the good, the bad and the better: A discursive perspective on probiotics and healthy eating. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1363459309360784 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2010). Mining the internet for linguistic and social data: An analysis of 'carbon compounds' in web feeds. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/0957926510381220 QMRO: qmroHref Crawford P, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2010). Nutritional altruism and functional food: Lay discourses on probiotics. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01238.x QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2010). Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: A new chapter in green mythology?. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/17524030903522389 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Thelwall M, Nerlich B (2010). From carbon markets to carbon morality: Creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1075547009340421 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N, Brown B (2010). Theory and language of climate change communication. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1002/wcc.2 QMRO: qmroHref Brown B, Nerlich B, Crawford P et al. (2009). Hygiene and Biosecurity: The Language and Politics of Risk in an Era of Emerging Infectious Diseases. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00230.x QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2009). A Review of “Applied linguistics as a social science”. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/09658410802147444 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009). Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: The case of 'carbon indulgences'. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009). Carbon Reduction Activism in the UK: Lexical Creativity and Lexical Framing in the Context of Climate Change. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/17524030902928793 QMRO: qmroHref Currie G, Koteyko N, Nerlich B (2009). The dynamics of professions and development of new roles in public services organizations: The case of modern matrons in the english NHS. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2009.01755.x QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2009). ‘I am a very happy, lucky lady, and I am full of Vitality!’ Analysis of promotional strategies on the websites of probiotic yoghurt producers. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/17405900902749973 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009). MRSA — Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1057/9780230594647_10 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Brown B, Crawford P (2008). The dead parrot and the dying swan: The role of metaphor scenarios in UK press coverage of avian flu in the UK in 2005-2006. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/10926480802426787 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Carter R (2008). Discourse of 'transformational leadership' in infection control. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1363459308094421 QMRO: qmroHref Brown B, Crawford P, Nerlich B et al. (2008). The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.016 QMRO: qmroHref Crawford P, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2008). The 'moral careers' of microbes and the rise of the matrons: An analysis of UK national press coverage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 1995-2006. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1080/13698570802167397 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Crawford P et al. (2008). 'Not rocket science' or 'no silver bullet'? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1093/applin/amn006 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2008). Balancing food risks and food benefits: The coverage of probiotics in the UK national press. nameOfConference DOI: 10.5153/sro.1692 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N, Nerlich B (2008). Modern matrons and infection control practices: Aspirations and realities. nameOfConference DOI: 10.1177/1469044607087601 QMRO: qmroHref Koteyko N (2007). A diachronic approach to meaning: English loanwords in Russian opposition discourse. nameOfConference DOI: 10.3366/cor.2007.2.1.65 QMRO: qmroHref Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2001). Crying wolf? Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic. nameOfConference DOI: doi QMRO: qmroHref SupervisionCurrent PhD Students 2022 Angeliki Lampropoulou (QM HSS scholarship) ‘Framing diabetes management and prevention in public discourse: A critical metaphor analysis’ 2022 Yahui Wang (self funded, primary supervisor) ‘Covid-19 mitigation in British national newspapers: a corpus-assisted approach’ 2021 Xuechun Xiang (China scholarship, secondary supervisor) ‘Loneliness in Life Stories of Older Migrants in the UK: A Linguistic Ethnography’ Completed projects: 2018-2023 Antoaneta Dimova (QM Life Sciences Institute Scholarship, primary supervisor) ‘Mental health advocacy on social media: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis’ 2018-2023 Reem Alhendi (Saudi Arabia scholarship, primary supervisor) –‘Saudi female bilingual EFL teachers’ code-switching: from beliefs to community of practice’ 2016-2020 Tom Rausch (QM Principal Scholarship, primary supervisor)- ‘The Discursive Construction of Risk in a Pan-African Health Consortium: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study’ 2010 – 2014 Dimitrinka Atanasova (University of Leicester Scholarship, joint supervision)- ‘Media representations of obesity in UK and German newspapers’Public Engagement A collaboration with Futurum to produce an education resource https://futurumcareers.com/how-can-we-design-social-media-to-be-inclusive On the basis of the Autistic Adults Online project findings, we developed a policy brief with Autistica and two toolkits to encourage efforts in adapting digital platforms to better support the needs of autistic users. Each toolkits addresses a different area of practice. Our first toolkit is aimed at software developers and web designers who possess the technical skills to design digital platforms. This toolkit contains an introduction to neurodiversity in order to provide a framework of reference to professionals who might not be familiar with this approach and its implications in design. It also details the methods we used in the workshops (e.g. evidence safari and design cards). By engaging with the evidence cards developed in our research, designers can get a tangible sense of how autistic users’ preferences and needs can shape innovative approaches to the design of digital spaces. The toolkit encourages the use of these methods in participatory efforts with neurodivergent users whenever possible. At the initial stage of toolkit development, we presented these methods to a group of UX designers and incorporated their feedback into the final version. The second toolkit supports digital managers and content creators working in the third and public sectors, who might not be able to re-design digital platforms, but could use our recommendations for tailoring the content and adapting individual platform features to accommodate autistic users. This includes content creation professionals from a range of fields – from those who manage government and NHS websites that do not specifically target autistic users (but are likely to include a large proportion of them, including undiagnosed users) to digital managers at autism charities.