Xinmei Sun

PhD student

Current Research

My PhD project examines the impartiality of parliamentary research services provided to MPs and their staff in the UK. Focusing on the briefing reports produced by parliamentary libraries, I employ cognitive and corpus approaches in developing an efficient and empirically sound measurement for impartiality, with the aim of mitigating biases in policymaking.

Selected Publications

Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19
Sun, X., Chałupnik, M. 30/09/2022 In: Discourse and Society. 33, 5, p. 650-670. 21 p.
Journal article

Smoke, Switch, Quit: A corpus-assisted investigation of tobacco industry and health bodies’ language around tobacco use
Fitzpatrick, I., Sun, X. 18/07/2024
Poster

7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Evidence for effects of metaphor extendedness and position in discourse: from conceptual accessibility to extent of metaphorical framing of political issues after reading
Oral presentation

16th Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience