Jai MacKenzie

Contact

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  Nottingham
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• Jai.MacKenzie@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://jaimack.wordpress.com/

Biography

BA, MEd, PhD, PGCHE, FHEA

My primary research interests lie in explorations of language, gender, sexuality and parenthood, especially in digital contexts. I am currently working on a British Academy funded project that explores the role of digital media in the lives of marginalised family groups in the UK, focusing on LGBT, solo, and/or adoptive parents. I recently published my first monograph: Language, Gender and Parenthood Online.

Please visit my research blog for more information and updates about my work: https://jaimack.wordpress.com/

You can also download some of my publications at http://birmingham.academia.edu/JaiMackenzie, and follow me on Twitter @macksocioling.

Expertise Summary

I serve on the committee for two special interest groups (SIGs) within the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). I am Postgraduate and Early Career Liaison Officer for the Language, Gender and SIG, and Treasurer for the Language and New Media SIG. I co-organised several events for these groups, including an online seminar series in 2020/21, and two events at the University of Nottingham, in 2017 and 2019. I have served on conference organising committees for BAAL 2016 and PALA 2018, and working parties for the BAAL Recommendations on Good Practice in Applied Linguistics, in both 2016 and 2020. I have been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2016.

Teaching Summary

My teaching interests lie in the areas of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis generally, and I have particular interest in the areas of language, gender and sexuality; language and digital… read more

Recent Publications

• MACKENZIE, J, COFFEY-GLOVER, L, MCGLASHAN, M and PAYNE, S, 2020. Disco Divas and Heroic Knights: A critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in 'Create the World' Lego cards. In: CALDAS-COULTHARD, C.R., ed., Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism Routledge. 60-76
• MACKENZIE, J, 2020. Digital Interaction. In: ADOLPHS, S and KNIGHT, D, eds., The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities Routledge. 49-65
• MACKENZIE, J., 2018. Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk Routledge.
• MACKENZIE, J., 2018. “Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up”: Negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk Gender and Language. 12(1), 114-135

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My teaching interests lie in the areas of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis generally, and I have particular interest in the areas of language, gender and sexuality; language and digital communication; language and identity, and research methods.

I currently teach on the following modules:

Language and Feminism

Language in Society

• MACKENZIE, J, COFFEY-GLOVER, L, MCGLASHAN, M and PAYNE, S, 2020. Disco Divas and Heroic Knights: A critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in 'Create the World' Lego cards. In: CALDAS-COULTHARD, C.R., ed., Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism Routledge. 60-76
• MACKENZIE, J, 2020. Digital Interaction. In: ADOLPHS, S and KNIGHT, D, eds., The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities Routledge. 49-65
• MACKENZIE, J., 2018. Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk Routledge.
• MACKENZIE, J., 2018. “Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up”: Negotiating discourses of gendered parenthood in Mumsnet Talk Gender and Language. 12(1), 114-135
• MACKENZIE, J., 2017. “Can we have a child exchange?”: Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk Discourse & Society. 28(3), 296-392
• MACKENZIE, J., 2017. Identifying informational norms in Mumsnet Talk: A reflexive-linguistic approach to internet research ethics Applied Linguistics Review. 8(2-3), 293-314