Tara Coltman-Patel

I am a Senior Research Associate working at Lancaster University in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences. I have a PhD in Linguistics and specialise in Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics and weight discrimination.
My other research interests include, critical discourse studies, politics, health communication, social discrimination, the intersections between marginalised social groups and identity.
In addition to research I have experience as a weight stigma consultant.