Sheena Gardner

Sheena Gardner is Professor of Applied Linguistics and member of the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University, UK. She has taught English for Academic Purposes in Scotland and Sudan, English in Germany and Ukraine, worked in North American university writing programmes and British MA in ELT/TEAL/TEAP/TESP programmes. Her research centres on exploring the nature of academic genres and registers in the British Academic Written English Corpus (www.coventry.ac.uk/BAWE). Her books include Genres across the Disciplines with H. Nesi (Cambridge, 2012), Multilingualism, Discourse and Ethnography edited with M. Martin-Jones (Routledge, 2012) and Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age edited with Siân Alsop (Equinox, 2016). She has recently investigated the political discourses of Covid-19 government briefings in the UK.