Psychology
Profile
Background
I joined the Department of Psychology as a Senior Lecturer in 2003 after completing my Ph.D. in Linguistics in Bielefeld (Germany), Lublin, and Warsaw (Poland).
Teaching
I teach on the BSc Psychology course and on the MSc Psychological Research Methods. I am unit coordinator for:
- Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists, BSc Psychology
- Interpreting Interaction, BSc Psychology
- Research-Based Learning, BSc Psychology
Research
Research group affiliation:
- Centre for Situated Action and Communication
- Centre for European and International Studies Research
My research concerns the linguistic mediation of activities, in particular the accomplishment of cooperative embodied activities and how such activities are resourced by the grammatical structures of a language. This research has been funded by the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, and most recently the Arts and Humanities Research Council. For more information on this work, visit: http://www.ca-across-cultures.org/
Research grants (external funding)
Jörg Zinken’s research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Union, the British Academy, and the British Psychological Society.
Advances in Cognitive Linguistics
I am one of the editors, together with Benjamin Bergen and Vyvyan Evans, of the Equinox book series Advances in Cognitive Linguistics. [http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/browse.asp?serid=28].
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