My current research focuses on the theorisation and study of 'linguistic reclamation': where an individual targeted by a particular slur uses it themselves for a (typically) non-derogatory purpose, as a means of defying/resisting the oppression which the slur usually enacts against them. I focus particularly on slurs which historically and currently target the LGBTQ+ community. I have explored this topic both sociolinguistically (in terms of how reclamation itself is best understood as a social and political phenomenon) and psycholinguistically (in terms of the extent to which engaging in/with reclamation might affect individuals' unconscious responses to slur words). More broadly, I am interested in how quantitative research dealing with issues of language and identity (particularly gender and sexuality) can approach these topics in a less categorical and essentialising manner, and can better align with contemporary, postmodern/post-structural theories of identity itself.