Cunningham, Dr Clare

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Cunningham, Dr Clare

Email:

C.Cunningham@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language and Psychology

Biography

Job title:

Associate Professor in Linguistics

Biography:

My doctoral research (at the University of York) and subsequent projects consider teachers’ discourses and attitudes around working with children who speak languages beyond English in northern UK primary schools. My other research interests include educational and applied linguistics more broadly; innovative pedagogical practice in TEFL and Higher Education, and more recently ecojustice in the curriculum and ecolinguistics.

Qualifications:

PhD in Language Education (York), MA English Language Teaching (York St John), BA French and Linguistics (York), CELTA (Cambridge ESOL), SFHEA

My Latest

Sauntson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-1242, Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Ennser-Kananen, Johanna and O'brien, Dai ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-7568 (2025) Language and social justice: an introduction to linguistic activism. Routledge
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 (2022) Just Stop Oil: research shows how activists and politicians talk differently about climate change. The Conversation.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 (2024) Teachers-as-pressed-flowers: unpacking ‘inert benevolence’ towards pupils who require additional support or advocacy to thrive in schools. Power and Education, 17 (1). pp. 125-135.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544 and Parks, Judith (2023) The climate crisis leaves students feeling helpless – what universities can do to empower them. The Conversation.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 and Little, Sabine (2022) ‘Inert benevolence’ towards languages beyond English in the discourses of English primary school teachers. Linguistics and Education, 78 (101122).
Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Parks, Judith, Pugh, Vicki, Hurst, Lucy, Williams, Sarah, Odell, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-7214, Adekola, Olalekan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9747-0583, Jagdev, Manjinder, Turner, Helen, Nattress, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3296-4264, Byrom, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4519-768X, Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Galloway, Morag ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3103-0611, McCaleb, Murphy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9867-9909, Reason, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-4236 and Mason, Linda (2022) Living Lab: Learning at the Junction - REFLECTION REPORT. Project Report. Institute for Social Justice, York St John University, York.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Foxcroft, Charlotte and Sauntson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-1242 (2022) The Divergent Discourses of Activists and Politicians in the Climate Change Debate: An Ecolinguistic Corpus Analysis. Language and Ecology.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 (2022) “It’s exciting and rewarding!”: Structured mini writing retreats as a tool for undergraduate researchers. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46 (10). pp. 1421-1433.
Cunningham, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624, Parks, Judith, Heinemeyer, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6300-5544, Bailey, Joseph ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9526-7095 and Castanada Martin, Ana (2023) Doing your little bit’ when ‘everything is just so big now’: Locating domains for developing agency amidst disagentic student discourses about our climate crisis. SoJo journal, 8 (1).
Wardman, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3767-7624 (2010) Making the News: A Motivating Writing Skills Project for ESL Students. The Internet TESL Journal, XVI (1).

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	The Divergent Discourses of Activists and Politicians in the Climate Change Debate: An Ecolinguistic Corpus Analysis	773	474
2	Pulling the threads together: current theories and current practice affecting UK primary school children who have English as an Additional Language	328	1915
3	"The Inappropriateness of Language": discourses of power and control over languages beyond English in primary schools	216	285
4	When 'home languages' become 'holiday languages': teachers' discourses about responsibility for maintaining languages beyond English	176	327
5	Terminological tussles: taking issue with ‘EAL’ and ‘languages other than English’	167	95
6	Teacher educators’ perspectives on preparing student teachers to work with pupils who speak languages beyond English	128	221
7	The climate crisis leaves students feeling helpless – what universities can do to empower them	96	45
8	Saying more than you realise about ‘EAL’: discourses of educators about children who speak languages beyond English.	95	44
9	“It’s exciting and rewarding!”: Structured mini writing retreats as a tool for undergraduate researchers	88	63
10	“It sounds awful because it sounds like you don’t value their home language”: English and French teachers’ contradictory attitudes and practices (with Prof Andrea Young and Dr Latisha Mary) as part of symposium Perspectives on Language(s) in Education: A Comparative Overview	85	6