Professor Ruth Page

• BA English Literature and Language (1994)
• Certificate in Professional Development, University of Central England (1997)
• PhD (University of Birmingham, 2000)

I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics in 2015, returning to the University of Birmingham where I completed my undergraduate and doctoral studies some years earlier.  In between, I worked at Birmingham City University and the University of Leicester.

I teach on our undergraduate and MA programmes, including the BA Digital Media and Communications and the BA English Language and Lingusitics. I teach on and/or convene modules in Narrative Analysis, Language and New Media and employer-led modules, such as Media in the Workplace.

I am always looking for students with exciting projects and am particularly interested in supervising projects which incorporate discourse analysis and narrative analysis, focus on data from spoken or social media contexts, which include multimodal materials along with verbal data, and/or explore topics in language and gender. I have supervised PhD projects in the broad fields of

Discourse analysis
Critical discourse analysis
Computer-mediated communication

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

Ruth’s research explores how people communicate in social media contexts, with a particular focus on storytelling. She is the Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded project, Influencer Stories of Mental Health and Young People (2024-2026). She was the Supervisor for the EU Funded project, Blame Avoidance in Twitter (2020-2022).

• I was Editor of Discourse, Context & Media (2015-2019)
• I convened BAAL’s Special Interest Group for Language and New Media (2013-2018)