Srikant Sarangi Srikant Sarangi is Professor and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University
Christopher N Candlin Christopher N Candlin is Senior Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University , Sydney . He was the Foundation Executive Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research (NCELTR) from 1987-1998, and established the Research Centre in Language in Social Life (CLSL), also at Macquarie , where he is currently Associate Director, and is also Associate Director of the newly-established Centre for Translation & Interpreting Research (CTIR). He has held Professorships at Lancaster , UK , The City University of Hong Kong, the Open University, UK , and currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Research Professorship in the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff , together with Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff . Recent research has targeted two main areas: professional and organizational communication (in particular in the fields of healthcare, law, social work, and management and with a focus on the appraisal of expertise), and disciplinary discourses in the academy. He co-directs the design and implementation of the new postgraduate programs at Macquarie in Communication in Professions & Organizations. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several international journals, including Applied Linguistics, TEXT and TALK, Journal of Sociolinguistics , Language Awareness , Journal of English for Specific Purposes, Porta Linguarum, and Communication in Medicine , and he co-edits (with Srikant Sarangi) the new Journal of Applied Linguistics . He also edits or coedits five international book series with major international publishers, has held more than 50 funded research grants, and has written or edited over 150 publications in the above fields. He has served on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), has been Vice-President of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), and from 1996 to 2002 was President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA). He has successfully supervised over 45 doctoral students and over 200 MA students. He has acted as a consultant to academic and professional institutions and organizations in over 35 countries and as external faculty assessor in 40 universities worldwide.
Peter Schulz Peter J. Schulz is a Professor for Sign Theories and Health Communication at the School of Communication Sciences and director of the Health Care Communication Laboratory, University of Lugano (www.hcc-lab.org). He currently holds five project grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and ten project grants from other funding bodies (including King's Fund, CancerBackup, and Health Promotion Switzerland) in the area of health communication. His main research interests are in the field of doctor-patient communication, in particular in knowledge translation, as well as in risk communication. Further research interests are in the areas of subjectivity and intersubjectivity from a semiotic perspective, as well as in theories of Communication Sciences. He is author of 5 books and editor of 3 books. He serves in the editorial and advisory boards of several journals. In addition, he is a committee member of a number of research institutions, including the Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Centro Frascini, and Swiss Virtual Campus. Since 2003 he is Guest Professor at the Virginia Technological University, USA.
Paul Crawford Paul Crawford is Associate Professor in Health Language and Communication at the School of Nursing and Co-Founder and Chair, Health Language Research Group, The University of Nottingham. He supervises 6 PhD students (2 ESRC funded) in studies of language use in health care and is Co-Founder and Course Tutor for a new distance learning MA in Health Communication. He is Coordinator for communication skills teaching across five main centres in the UK’s biggest School of Nursing. He is also Academic Lead for the Managed Innovation Network in Mental Health Communication, funded by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, UK. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, he has written or co-written 7 books including: Communicating Care: The Language of Nursing, Evidence Based Research: Dilemmas and Debates in Health Care (Highly Commended in the BMA Book Competition, 2004), Storytelling in Therapy, Evidence Based Health Communication, Communication in Clinical Settings and Politics and History in William Golding: The World Turned Upside Down. His work across the fields of health care (esp. mental health), language and literature has resulted in grants from The British Academy, ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust. He referees for several publishing houses and major journals. He is a Member of the Society of Authors and the British Association of Applied Linguistics. His first novel, Nothing Purple, Nothing Black is to be made into a film by The Drama House, London/ Florida.
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