Thora Tenbrink is Professor of Linguistics and Director of Postgraduate Studies at the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Bangor University.
Her main expertise is in discourse analysis, applied to understand how people think. She is author of “Cognitive Discourse Analysis: An Introduction” (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and “Space, Time, and the Use of Language” (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007), co-editor of three books on linguistic representation and dialogue, and a highly active author of peer-reviewed journal articles in areas of language, cognition and communication.
In recent years her focus has moved from space (understanding spatial locations and relationships) to place (meaningful relationships to spaces), especially in relation to climate change.
She is Director of the Places of Climate Change Research Centre at Bangor University, as well as co-leading the PATCCh WISERD network. Both groups aim at collaborating on place-based approaches to climate change.