I am a PhD student in the Department of English and German Studies at the University of Zaragoza in her fist year (2022), for which I have been granted a research fellowship by the Diputación General de Aragón (DGA). My thesis is framed within the field of digital discourse and multimodal discourse analysis as it focuses on social media communication and knowledge dissemination within the context of social media platforms (namely X/Twitter and Instagram). 

My main objective is to explore the discursive enactment of expert identity in the context of social media communication for knowledge dissemination purposes, which makes my thesis to be aligned with the interests of the InterGedi group. As part of the InterGedi research group, my main responsibilities include contributing to the bibliographical revision of updated literature relevant for the project, the compilation and tagging of the SciDis Database and the dissemination and transfer of our research results within and beyond the academic community. Given my recent incorporation in the research academic world, I am currently in an initial information stage in which I am getting acquainted with all the theoretical notions and research perspectives necessary to carry out my thesis, while also advancing in the compilation of the Social MEdia and Physical Health (SMEPH) Database, a collection of X/Twitter and Instagram posts created as part of my PhD project which I will be analysing in the following years.

Find my research results here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana-Sancho-Ortiz