Ellie Turner

I am a criminology PhD student in the School of Social Sciences researching the criminalisation of climate change activism. My research focuses on a wide range of phenomena; from how language is utilised to construct climate change activism as criminal in legal contexts, to the structure and flow of online interactions in response to climate change activism in the current day political context. 
 
As I did my undergraduate in psychology, my areas of interests also include forensic and correctional psychology. Methodologically, I am passionate about discourse analysis; how language is used to construct social worlds, as well as social network analysis; how social structures are made up of webs of individual relations.
 
Alongside my PhD project, I am fascinated by the history of medical sciences and abandoned infrastructure. Outside of research, I am an artist, both traditional and digital, and an astrophotographer.