Dr Will Turner

Dr Will Turner


Post-Doctoral Researcher (IIMP)

Location: 1st Floor, Lord Ashcroft Building, Cambridge
Room: LAB 119

UK: 0845 196 5682
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 5682
Email: will.turner@anglia.ac.uk




Will is an early career researcher based in the International Institute for Management Practice (IIMP) at the Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge. This represents a second career as he has a professional background in the media (mostly as a sports commentator). He is a qualitative discourse analyst with a linguistics-based PhD. His thesis interrogated the practices that underpinned the BBC's online representation of the language of the UK.

Media work continues to be an abiding area of interest, whilst his current research projects focus on interdisciplinary teamwork and innovation and questions of professional identity. He is married and has two children.


Recent Publications

  • Will Turner (2013) Language ideology and synthesized interactivity in Voices. In Clive Upton and Bethan Davies (eds.) Analysing 21st Century English. London: Routledge.
  • Bethan Davies, Tommaso M. Milani and Will Turner (2012). Multilingual nation online? Possibilities and constraints on the BBC Voices website. In Sheena Gardner and Marilyn Martin-Jones (eds.), Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography. London: Routledge.
  • Tommaso M. Milani, Bethan Davies and Will Turner (2011). Unity in diversity? Centripetal and centrifugal trajectories in the representation of national identity on the BBC Voices website. Journal of Language and Politics 10(4) 587-614.
  • Will Turner (2008), Bethan Benwell and Elizabeth Stoke, Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Alastair Pennycook, Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows. London: Routledge. Discourse Studies 10(5).
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