Linguist of meanings and messages. Disasters | Climate change | Public communication | Public health. Griffith University. she/her
Joined August 2019
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7 Aug 2023
My blog post on the emotional impact of climate change and environmental destruction, exploring different emotional vocabularies. Ecological emotions in an era of global boiling: A view from linguistics – by Helen Bromhead medicinanarrativa.eu/ecologi…
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16 Jan 2024
Latest public writing from Centre Member @HelBromhead "Should Australia abandon “bushfire” and join the rest of the world?" Read here now...cosmosmagazine.com/news/shou…
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14 Nov 2023
📢New publication
Making messages effective for all: South East Queensland flood warnings and alerts.
Report in 'Australian Journal of Emergency Management'
Messages that are simpler, clearer and easier to interpret and translate.
tinyurl.com/ye26ns9s
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8 Nov 2023
Public hypocoristics
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6 Nov 2023
Magnificent Canberra brutalism!
5 Nov 2023
The Callam Offices reaching out to the now demolished bus interchange
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17 Oct 2023
Are you 18 living in #Victoria and speaking #Arabic. Help us understand and strengthen Communication in Emergency settings via this #survey
unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f…
@SEECproject
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27 Oct 2023
‘On the Offensive’ by @karenstollznow. A great read 🤩
About language and discrimination.
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8 Oct 2023
Linguistics for the polycrisis
-A themed session in Australian Linguistics Society conference. December 1, 2023, convened by @AKazmaly and me.
-Heat, environment, psychology, online communities, COVID-19, mental health, plus discussion!
Program here: tinyurl.com/bdjz4ccb
ALT visualisation of hope vs crisis in NY Times. "NYTimes: Hope vs. Crisis" by blprnt
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Helen Bromhead retweeted
4 Oct 2023
Applications are now open for the 2024 ANU Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship program. Our annual theme for 2024 is “Time, Place, Everywhen". Applications close Friday 20 October 2023. More information on our website: shorturl.at/muBDH
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A new Playbook to help communications professionals effectively reach multicultural audiences. Congratulations @m_culturalnsw on this much needed resource with step-by-step advice, tips and useful case studies: multicultural.nsw.gov.au/mul…
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27 Sep 2023
A while back, a post about my work appeared on the Griffith Disaster Management Network blog, written by Jacqueline Ewart:
--Translating disaster messaging for culturally and linguistically diverse communities🔥🌊🗣️
blogs.griffith.edu.au/disast…
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📢 Calling all community members from Arabic, Pasifika, Chinese, Ezidi, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese backgrounds in Australia! 🗣️ Participate in our survey to help shape future emergency communication - Link to survey here: tinyurl.com/SEECEnglish
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4 Aug 2023
Since there is much talk of eco-anxiety in Italy these days, check out this article by @HelBromhead.
medicinanarrativa.eu/ecologi…
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Helen Bromhead retweeted
3 Aug 2023
Open Access! "Applied semantics and climate communication" by @HelBromhead and me. Please click, share, RT...
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Helen Bromhead retweeted
6 Jun 2023
Stay in the loop on our efforts to boost engagement with multicultural communities during health crises. Follow us via @SEECproject for the latest updates and insights! Just launched! #CommunityEngagement #HealthCrises #MulticulturalOutreach
15 Dec 2022
Proud to be leading a team consisting of 15 researchers, health professionals and stakeholders from multicultural health and communication on this new @nhmrc Ideas Grant focused on enhancing culturally responsive #engagement efforts during pandemics and other health crises.
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Helen Bromhead retweeted
5 Apr 2023
*Danish in the Making* is a research group at @AarhusUni / @roskildeuni. We study Danish words, meanings and linguistic practices from intercultural and didactic perspectives #Danish #linguistics #semantics #pragmatics #linguaculture #languageacquisition
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27 Mar 2023
Two tawny frogmouths, possibly mother and young, visiting fellows today in @GU_SocialCultur
ALT Adult tawny frogmouth on branch
ALT young tawny frogmouth on branch
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23 Mar 2023
'The semantics of migrant in Australian English' by @YeZhengdao Free to download here: tinyurl.com/2w44e6n3
Taken from 'Meaning, Life and Culture'. Whole book available at: tinyurl.com/y2c6u4v6
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