CIRES Research Seminar 2025

---

On Friday 30th of May 2025, alongside colleagues from the research group CIRES (Comunicación Internacional y Retos Sociales), the InterGedi team co-organised the research seminar entitled “Research methods for discourse studies”. Three scholars were invited, Dr Niall Curry, Dr Edgar Bernad-Mechó and Sasha Coelho, who shared their expertise with us through workshops on different research methods, during the morning and the afternoon sessions.

---

First, Dr Niall Curry, from Manchester Metropolitan University, delivered a talk on “Corpus approaches to investigating academic and public-oriented research communication”. He shedded light on some metadiscoursal trends in semi-academic communication practices such as TheConversation, highlighting some insights from a corpus-based study of English, Spanish and French texts. His workshop focused on exploring the affordances of Sketch Engine, a corpus manager and text analysis software.

Then, Sasha Coelho, from Technische Universität Chemnitz, gave a presentation entitled “Data Visualisation with R: An introduction to ggplot 2”. She started first by offering an overview of the programming language R to then run a hands-on session where we got to navigate RStudio IDE.

Next, in the afternoon session, the presentation of Dr Edgar Bernad-Mechó, from Universitat Jaume I (UJI), was entitled “GRAPE-MARS: Using video-annotating software for the multimodal analysis of digital genres”. During his talk, he ran a practical session on the multimodal analysis of audiovisual texts using the GRAPE-MARS software developed by his research group at UJI.

Thank you to all the researchers that participated in the seminar! Looking forward to the next one!