– Brigitte Nerlich –
Emeritus Professor of Science, Language and Society
School of Sociology and Social Policy, Institute for Science and Society University of Nottingham
Brigitte is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. Brigitte studied French and philosophy in Germany and gained a DrPhil in French linguistics. After a postdoc in general linguistic at Oxford, she came to Nottingham, where she moved into the field of Science and Technology Studies and gained a DLitt.
Her research focuses on the cultural and political contexts in which metaphors and other framing devices are used in public, policy and scientific debates.
Between 2007 and 2008, she led two ESRC funded projects on cleanliness in health and agriculture and on probiotics, using media and interview analysis. These projects included research on MRSA, antibiotic resistance and associated catastrophic discourse.
In 2009, she was involved in a project led by Professor Kim Hardie focusing on increasing hand hygiene in children and raising their awareness of good and bad bacteria. In 2018 she carried out a short project on media portrayals of faecal microbial transplants with Dr Carmen McLeod.
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