Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am always looking for students with exciting projects and am particularly interested in supervising projects which incorporate discourse analysis and narrative analysis, focus on data from spoken or social media contexts, which include multimodal materials along with verbal data, and/or explore topics in language and gender. I have supervised PhD projects in the broad fields of
Discourse analysis
Critical discourse analysis
Computer-mediated communication
Research activity per year
I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in 2015, returning to the University of Birmingham where I completed my undergraduate and doctoral studies some years earlier. In between, I worked at Birmingham City University and the University of Leicester.
Ruth’s research explores how people communicate in social media contexts, with a particular focus on storytelling. She is the Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded project, Influencer Stories of Mental Health and Young People (2024-2026). She was the Supervisor for the EU Funded project, Blame Avoidance in Twitter (2020-2022).
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Economic & Social Research Council
1/02/24 → 31/01/26
Project: Research
Ruth Page (Advisor)
Activity: Consultancy, CPD, training and secondments › Consultancy
Ruth Page (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk
Ruth Page (Invited speaker)
Activity: Academic and Industrial events › Guest lecture or Invited talk