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A recent study by Professors Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social, Stephen Flusberg, and Alison Mackey highlights the power of the animated raincoat #metaphor in explaining why it is worth taking a #vaccine even if it isn't 100% effective. Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project Watch here: bit.ly/3uwRYHp

We tested 10 #metaphors for #vaccinations and found that they can help with social interactions about vaccines: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… Stephen Flusberg With Science Animated we created 5 animations based on the metaphors that worked best. You can find them here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/vaccination-di…

Findings from Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project will be presented at 2 public lectures during World Immunisation week: in Lancaster on 30/4 lancaster.ac.uk/events/vaccina…; online on 26/4 as part of the Royal Society for Public Health webinar series rsph.org.uk/event/communic…. You can still sign up for both

This Friday (26/04) we will be presenting online as part of the Royal Society for Public Health (Royal Society for Public Health) webinar series. We will be talking about findings from the last three years of Quo VaDis alongside upcoming research. You can sign up here: rsph.org.uk/event/communic…

Today at 1.00 we're presenting our Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project findings at this webinar.

It was a lovely learning experience, and the research findings of the Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project are super interesting, Dr William Dance Thank you for your talk and for celebrating the #WorldImmunizationWeek with us at the Royal Society for Public Health !

"When we talk about vaccines, we can make a difference." Thanks to the Lancaster University Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project team for a great webinar on what linguistic analysis can tell us about communicating vaccinations. #WorldImmunisationWeek

This evening at the Storey Institute in Lancaster, double-act by Rachel Isba Rachel Isba and myself on the last day of World Immunisation Week - part of RSChem Lancashire Public Lecture series: 'Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?' eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-isba-s…

Feels very strange to be leaving CASS today after my last day working on Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project. It’s been an amazing three years and I’m grateful to have done some really brilliant work with fantastic people. Looking forward to what the future has in hold for me ⭐️

After 3 amazing years, it’s my last day at CASS working on the Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project 😭 What an INCREDIBLE experience, I’m so grateful for the opportunity! Thanks to my fantastic colleagues Dr William Dance Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social Prof Claire Hardaker (dormant account) Alice Deignan Dr Zsófia Demjén, @zsofiademjen.bsky.social Derek Gatherer

We will miss you so much, Tara! Thank you for everything from everyone in CASS and Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project

You will be so missed, William! Thank you everything from everyone in CASS and Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project

Our Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project webinar on 'Communication about vaccines' for the Royal Society for Public Health Royal Society for Public Health is now available on YouTube: youtu.be/YqnPBH3uTVM?si…

If you’re interested in the analysis of contemporary and historical datasets of vaccination discussions, listen at the link below for a showcase of Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project research. Specifically, I discuss the three million word Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus ‘VicVaDis’.

Today I took Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project to the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio, for a symposium on Corpus Approaches to Grammar and Discourse. And another stunning campus.

Our Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis) - introduced here: academic.oup.com/dsh/article/39… - is now available with multiple levels of annotation on #LancsBox X lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk

New paper on #vaccine #indecision on a parenting forum just out in Applied Corpus Linguistics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper in Vaccine X: ‘It's a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter/X during the COVID-19 pandemic sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New piece for The Conversation by Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social on our latest study on a new form of vaccine-specific scepticism - questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines theconversation.com/its-not-a-vacc…

‘A jab is not a vaccine; it’s a shot’ - new paper on vaccine-related terminological confusion in Public Health sciencedirect.com/science/articl…