David Mitchell

David completed his BSc in Biomedical Science at the University of Warwick. He later embarked on a career in English teaching around Europe, completing his Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Following his return to the UK, he completed his MA in Applied Linguistics at the University of Sheffield and is now pursuing a PhD funded by WRoCAH.

David’s research interests span linguistics, media, political communication and international relations. His current PhD project consists of a comparative Multimodal Critical Discourse analysis of the violence in Palestine and Ukraine. To elucidate the factors which encourage differing representations of the occupied in UK media, David seeks answers in synergising various CDA approaches, including van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Approach and Fairclough’s Dialectical-Relational Approach, and in combining linguistic and visual semiotic analyses.