The recordings from the 2026 DRAOI Summer Seminar Series are now available on the DRAOI website. This year’s series ran across July and August and brought together five presentations spanning the discursive politics of abortion in Northern Ireland, the representation of women political leaders in televised debates, endangered language branding Read more
Our second blog post comes from a long-time member of the Discourse Research Association of Ireland, Dr Alex Pavlenko of the A.P. Chekhov Institute in Taganrog, Russia. Alex has previously shared his work with us as part of the 2023 Summer Seminar Series. His presentation, entitled An Attempt at Transforming Read more
DRAOI is delighted to publish the association’s third blog post. It comes from Dr Muireann Prendergast (South East Technological University), a long-time member and contributor to the DRAOI community. Her post introduces her Research Ireland New Foundations project, Time to be Seen: Promoting Gender Balance in Media Discourses on Agriculture Read more
Our inaugural blogpost is an edited transcript of an interview between DRAOI co-founder Stephen Goulding and Collective Memory-Work Practitioner, Dr Robert Hamm. The interview covers potential intersections between discourse research and Collective Memory-Work, with a specific focus on critical discourse analysis. Stephen Goulding: Welcome, Robert Hamm, and thank you for Read more
We’re very pleased to introduce a new initiative from DRAOI, the Discourse Research Association of Ireland — The DRAOI Blog! With a regular series of blog posts from/by/about a broad range of researchers, we hope to increase the visibility of discourse-related scholarship on and of the island of Ireland. These Read more
We’re absolutely delighted to welcome a wide range of discourse scholars to DRAOI’s third annual Summer Seminar Series! Like previous years, all seminars will take place virtually (via Microsoft Teams). More information can be found here. We look forward to welcoming everyone for the following talks: All times refer to Read more
The full schedule for DRAOI’s second annual Summer Seminar Series is now available! Please see details below, and visit our webpages for further information. Please note all seminars will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday afternoons at 3:00 pm, Irish Standard Time (GMT+1). We hope you will be Read more
Thank you to everyone who has submitted a proposal for the 2022 Summer Seminar Series! We have received a number of wonderful submissions, and we are looking forward to a very interesting summer of talks. We will be in touch with those of you who have submitted abstracts very soon. Read more
The Discourse Research Association of Ireland (DRAOI) is hosting our second annual Summer Seminar Series! This series follows on from the success of last year’s inaugural Summer Seminar Series, which saw seven weeks of fascinating talks and discussions preceded by an informal get-to-know-you event with DRAOI members. We are delighted Read more
Last summer we organised our inaugural Summer Seminar Series, which saw scholars from 7 universities present their discourse research over the course of 7 weekly sessions in July and August 2021. The series followed on from our initial call for interest in our research network, which received over 30 expressions Read more