Kate Steel
Research student, School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- Email:
- steelcm@cardiff.ac.uk
I’m a PhD student at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, working on legal-lay communication in domestic abuse policing. My thesis centres on police-victim interactions during first response call-outs in England and Wales. The study draws from a relatively new policing technology, body-worn video.
I graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a BA Honours in English in 2007 and an MA with distinction in Linguistics in 2008. After a hiatus from academia, during which I worked abroad in various countries and industries, I graduated from Aston University in 2017 with an MSc with distinction in Forensic Linguistics.
Research interests
My research interests converge on interactions in institutional contexts, with a broad focus on pragmatics, power and gender. I’m particularly interested in legal-lay communication in various settings, including investigative interviews, emergency calls and criminal trials. My current study of domestic abuse call-out interaction takes a linguistic ethnographic approach to explore the interpersonal work done by both police and alleged victims at the scene.
My PhD research is funded by the ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
Teaching
From October 2018, I will be a Postgraduate Tutor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
In 2010/11 and 2011/12, I was a seminar Instructor in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at De La Salle University, Manila.
Dr Michelle Aldridge-Waddon
Deputy Head of School and Head of Subject
