Professor Nelya Koteyko, MA, PhD

Profile

Research interests:  digital identity, anthropology of autism and autistic sociality, linguistic ethnography,  illness narratives, media representations of science and medicine

Projects

2023 – 2029: PI Wellcome Trust Discovery Award “Autism in affinity spaces: Interest-driven social media practices during the transition to adulthood’

2020-2023: Principal Investigator- ESRC standard grant 'Autistic adults online: enabling autistic sociality in digital networked environments'. Co-I Prof J Vines. Website: https://autisticadultsonline.com/

2013 –2018:  Work Package Leader - AHRC funded program ‘Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Wellbeing’. PI: Prof. P Crawford.

2013-2015: Principal Investigator – ESRC standard grant ‘Chronic illness and online networking: expectations, assumptions, and everyday realities’. Co-I: Prof B Gunter.

2013-2015: Visiting Researcher/collaborator on LINGCLIM Project. ‘Linguistic representations of climate change discourse and their individual and collective interpretations’ funded by SAMKUL-programme, Research Council of Norway. PI: Prof K. Flottum.

2011-14: Co-Investigator on the research project 'From Greenhouse Effect to Climategate: A systematic study of climate change as a complex social issue' funded by the ESRC and NWO ORA fund.

2008-2010: Co-Investigator on the ESRC-funded project "Carbon compounds': Lexical creativity and discourse formations in the context of climate change'. PI: Prof B Nerlich.

Research

Publications

• Koteyko N, Van Driel M, Vines J (2022), Autistic sociality on Twitter: Enacted affordances and affiliation strategies

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/17504813211070655

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/74875
• Koteyko N, van Driel M (2021), How can we design social media to be inclusive?
• Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Hellsten I (2019), Introduction: Climate Change Communication and the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities for Research

  
  

  DOI: 10.4324/9781315403625-1
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Brown B et al. (2019), Mental health and the media: From illness to wellbeing

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12678
• Koteyko N, Hunt D (2018), Special issue: Discourse analysis perspectives on online health communication

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.08.002

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/54523
• KOTEYKO N, ATANASOVA D (2018), Mental health advocacy on Twitter: Positioning in Depression Awareness Week tweets

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.04.007

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/39125
• Pounds G, Hunt D, Koteyko N (2018), Expression of empathy in a Facebook-based diabetes support group

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2018.01.008

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/35303
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2017), Obesity frames and counter-frames in British and German online newspapers

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1363459316649764

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13390
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2017), Metaphors in Guardian Online and Mail Online Opinion-page Content on Climate Change: War, Religion, and Politics

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1024705

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7922
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Brown B et al. (2017), Representations of mental health and arts participation in the national and local British press, 2007-2015.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1363459317708823

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25656
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N (2017), Metaphors in online editorials and op-eds about climate change, 2006-2013: A study of Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States

  
  

  DOI: 10.4324/9781315456935
• Koteyko N, Atanasova D (2016), Discourse Analysis in Climate Change Communication

  
  

  DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.489
• Koteyko N, Hunt D (2016), Performing health identities on social media: An online observation of Facebook profiles

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2015.11.003

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/13774
• Koteyko N, Atanasova D (2016), Metaphor and the representation of scientific issues: Climate change in print and online media

  
  

  DOI: 10.4324/9781315672953
• Touri M, Koteyko N (2015), Using corpus linguistic software in the extraction of news frames: towards a dynamic process of frame analysis in journalistic texts

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.929878
• Pearce W, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2015), Communicating climate change: Conduits, content, and consensus

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/wcc.366
• Hunt D, Koteyko N (2015), ‘What was your blood sugar reading this morning?’ Representing diabetes self-management on Facebook

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/0957926515576631

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/12162
• Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Hellsten I (2015), Editorial: Climate change communication and the internet: Challenges and opportunities for research

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2015.1029297
• Koteyko N, Hunt D, Gunter B (2015), Expectations in the field of the Internet and health: An analysis of claims about social networking sites in clinical literature

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12203

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/7937
• Hunt D, Koteyko N, Gunter B (2015), UK policy on social networking sites and online health: From informed patient to informed consumer?

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/2055207615592513

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/23645
• Fløttum K, Gjesdal AM, Gjerstad Ø et al. (2014), Representations of the future in English language blogs on climate change

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.005
• Koteyko N (2014), Language and politics in post-Soviet Russia: A corpus assisted approach

  
  

  DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093
• Koteyko N (2014), Perspectives on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis

  
  

  DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_2
• Gunter B, Koteyko N, Atanasova D (2014), Sentiment analysis: A market-relevant and reliable measure of public feeling?

  
  

  DOI: 10.2501/IJMR-2014-014
• Koteyko N (2014), Sociolinguistic Patterns and Discursive Stages in Post-Soviet Russia

  
  

  DOI: 10.1057/9781137314093_3
• Touri M, Koteyko N (2014), Using corpus linguistic software in the extraction of news frames: towards a dynamic process of frame analysis in journalistic texts

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2014.929878
• Jaspal R, Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2013), Contesting Science by Appealing to Its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in the Daily Mail

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1075547012459274
• Koteyko N, Jaspal R, Nerlich B (2013), Climate change and 'climategate' in online reader comments: A mixed methods study

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00479.x
• Armstrong N, Koteyko N, Powell J (2012), 'Oh dear, should I really be saying that on here?': Issues of identity and authority in an online diabetes community

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1363459311425514
• Atanasova D, Koteyko N, Gunter B (2012), Obesity in the news: Directions for future research

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.00985.x
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2012), Crying wolf? Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.02.008
• Harvey K, Koteyko N (2012), Exploring Health Communication: Language in Action

  
  

  DOI: 10.4324/9780203096437
• Koteyko N (2012), Managing carbon emissions: A discursive presentation of 'market-driven sustainability' in the British media

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.11.001
• Koteyko N (2010), Balancing the good, the bad and the better: A discursive perspective on probiotics and healthy eating

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1363459309360784
• Koteyko N (2010), Mining the internet for linguistic and social data: An analysis of 'carbon compounds' in web feeds

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/0957926510381220
• Crawford P, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2010), Nutritional altruism and functional food: Lay discourses on probiotics

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01238.x
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2010), Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: A new chapter in green mythology?

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/17524030903522389
• Koteyko N, Thelwall M, Nerlich B (2010), From carbon markets to carbon morality: Creative compounds as framing devices in online discourses on climate change mitigation

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1075547009340421
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N, Brown B (2010), Theory and language of climate change communication

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/wcc.2
• Koteyko N (2009), A Review of “Applied linguistics as a social science”

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/09658410802147444
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009), Compounds, creativity and complexity in climate change communication: The case of 'carbon indulgences'

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.03.001
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009), Carbon Reduction Activism in the UK: Lexical Creativity and Lexical Framing in the Context of Climate Change

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/17524030902928793
• Currie G, Koteyko N, Nerlich B (2009), The dynamics of professions and development of new roles in public services organizations: The case of modern matrons in the english NHS

  
  

  DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2009.01755.x
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2009), MRSA-Portrait of a superbug: A media drama in Three Acts

  
  

  DOI: 10.1057/9780230594647_10
• Koteyko N, Brown B, Crawford P (2008), The dead parrot and the dying swan: The role of metaphor scenarios in UK press coverage of avian flu in the UK in 2005-2006

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/10926480802426787
• Koteyko N, Carter R (2008), Discourse of 'transformational leadership' in infection control

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1363459308094421
• Brown B, Crawford P, Nerlich B et al. (2008), The habitus of hygiene: Discourses of cleanliness and infection control in nursing work

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.06.016
• Crawford P, Brown B, Nerlich B et al. (2008), The 'moral careers' of microbes and the rise of the matrons: An analysis of UK national press coverage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) 1995-2006

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/13698570802167397
• Koteyko N, Nerlich B, Crawford P et al. (2008), 'Not rocket science' or 'no silver bullet'? Media and government discourses about MRSA and cleanliness

  
  

  DOI: 10.1093/applin/amn006
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2008), Balancing food risks and food benefits: The coverage of probiotics in the UK national press

  
  

  DOI: 10.5153/sro.1692
• Koteyko N, Nerlich B (2008), Modern matrons and infection control practices: Aspirations and realities

  
  

  DOI: 10.1177/1469044607087601
• Koteyko N (2007), A diachronic approach to meaning: English loanwords in Russian opposition discourse

  
  

  DOI: 10.3366/cor.2007.2.1.65
• Nerlich B, Koteyko N (2001), Crying wolf? Biosecurity and metacommunication in the context of the 2009 swine flu pandemic

Supervision

Current PhD Students

2022  Angeliki Lampropoulou (QM HSS scholarship) ‘Framing diabetes management and prevention in  public discourse: A critical metaphor analysis’

2022 Yahui Wang (self funded, primary supervisor) ‘Covid-19 mitigation in British national newspapers: a corpus-assisted approach’

2021 Xuechun Xiang (China scholarship, secondary supervisor) ‘Loneliness in Life Stories of Older Migrants in the UK: A Linguistic Ethnography’

Completed projects:

2018-2023 Antoaneta Dimova (QM Life Sciences Institute Scholarship, primary supervisor) ‘Mental health advocacy on social media: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis’

2018-2023 Reem Alhendi (Saudi Arabia scholarship, primary supervisor) –‘Saudi female bilingual EFL teachers’ code-switching: from beliefs to community of practice’

2016-2020 Tom Rausch (QM Principal Scholarship, primary supervisor)- ‘The Discursive Construction of Risk in a Pan-African Health Consortium: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study’   

2010 – 2014  Dimitrinka Atanasova (University of Leicester Scholarship, joint supervision)- ‘Media representations of obesity in UK and German newspapers’

Public Engagement

A collaboration with Futurum to produce an education resource https://futurumcareers.com/how-can-we-design-social-media-to-be-inclusive