Dr Joanne McDowell

Office

Room 176 HumSS Building, Tel. 0118 3787457 (internal 7457)

E-mail

j.a.mcdowell@reading.ac.uk

Qualifications

BA in English and Social Anthropology (Queen's University, Belfast); MA in English Language and Linguistics (Queen's University, Belfast); PhD in Sociolinguistics (University of Ulster).

University responsibilities

Joanne joined the University of Reading in September 2009 as a Teaching and Academic Fellow and she is Part 2 Co-ordinator for the BA in English Language programme.

Teaching experience

Joanne has been involved in tertiary level teaching since 2002. She taught linguistics at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, and tutored BA undergraduates in communication, marketing and advertising. In 2006 she successfully completed the SEDA Associate HE Teacher Award, part of the PGCHEP.

Joanne currently teaches/contributes to the following modules on the BA in English Language programme:

• LS1SGM: Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
• LS1ELS: English Language and Society
• LS1ELU: English Language in Use
• LS2AD Approaches to Discourse
• LS2SL Sociolinguistics
• LS2RM: Research Methods

Joanne also contributes to the teaching of the MA in Applied Linguistics (MAAL) and MA in English Language Teaching (MA ELT):

• LSMSO Sociolinguistics

Research interests

Joanne has recently completed her PhD in Linguistics (at the University of Ulster); her thesis focused on gender and discourse within the workplace. She has also completed various research projects including an attitudinal survey of the Ulster Scots dialect across Northern Ireland; a quantitative study of actively spoken Ulster Scots; and qualitative and quantitative research into the effect of early intervention on young children's learning outcomes. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language and gender, workplace discourse, and the construction of gendered identities. She am currently working on the publication of a volume based on her PhD thesis, and several research papers.

Publications

• Forthcoming October 2009: conference paper given at 'I-mean' conference April 2009, extracted from PhD entitled 'Men in non-traditional jobs: the case of nursing'
• Forthcoming November 2009: Improving socio-emotional well-being, physical well-being, and the learning environment: a review of interventions targeting young children.
• NCB quarterly review: Improving outcomes for young children: A review of evaluated interventions (2009)
• CAWT Carers: Caring for Individuals with a Learning Disability (2007)
• Report for Ullans, papers extracted from 'An attitudinal survey of Ulster Scots throughout Northern Ireland' (2006)
• Institute of Ulster Scots Studies Annual Report (2006)

Presentations

• 'Men in non-traditional jobs: the case of nursing'. 'I-mean', University of the West of England, UK, April 2009.

Invited talks

Joanne has been invited to be on a panel for the conference entitled 'Discourse of Helping Professions' conference to be held in Germany, July 2010. She will be presenting her paper entitled 'The discourse of caring: 'doing being a nurse''.