PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Paul Wilson
SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES
POSITION DESCRIPTION
1. Running classes for students
2. Conductiong academic research
3. Publishing the results of my research in academic journals and monographs
4. Presenting papers at conferences
5. Membership in international research groups
6. International exchange within the Erasmus programme
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
I was born in Bradford in the United Kingdom but I spent most of my childhood in Norfolk. My mother was Scottish and I am proud of my Scottish origin. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of East London and in 2001 I obtained a PhD in psychology in Birkbeck College, which is a part of the University of London. The topic of my dissertation was the relationship between cognition and emotion. Before I came to Poland I had been employed at the University of East London and Birkbeck College as a research assistant. In 2001 I started working in the Institute of English Studies and I am a member of the Department of Corpus and Computational Linguistics.
INTERESTS
My research interests cover the following three broad fields: cognitive linguistics; language, cognition and emotions; and cultural influences on emotion concepts. Within these, my
specific foci are on the role of emotions in foreign language learning, social robotics, intercultural issues pertaining to social media and conflict; online hate speech, and the
conceptual representation of emotions.
ACHIEVEMENTS
My most important publications:
1.Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., Žitnik, S., Liebeskind, C., Valunaite Oleskeviciene, G., Bączkowska, A., Wilson, P.A., ... Mitrović, J. 2023. Annotation Scheme and Evaluation: The Case of Offensive Language. Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 49 (1).
2.Wilson, P. A. & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. 2023. Collective Identities in Online Contexts. Language, Expressivity and Cognition. Research London/Sydney/New York/New Delhi: Bloomsbury.
3.Wilson, P. A. & Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. 2023. Prototypes in emotion concepts. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 19(1). 125-143.
4.Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., & Wilson, P. A. 2022. Contrasts and analogies in cluster categories of emotion concepts in monolingual and cross-linguistic contexts: Contempt. Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 405-438.
5.Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., & P. A. Wilson. 2021. Cross-cultural models of mental hurt emotion clusters. Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 123-147.
6.Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., & P. A. Wilson. 2021. Expressive and reserved cultural linguistic schemas: British and American pride clusters. Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes Singapore: Springer. 261-293.
7.Wilson, P. A. & B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. 2021. Real-world consequences of devirtualization from online to offline spaces: The role of shame as a resource in the honor killing of Qandeel Baloch. From Shame to Well-Being. Industry 4.0 Singapore: Springer. 455-474.
8.Wilson, P. A. & B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. 2020. Effects of non-native versus native teaching scenarios on L2 student emotions. Foreign Language Pedagogy in the Light of Cognitive Linguistics Research Singapore: Springer. 3-15.
9.Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B., Wilson, P. A., and Croucher, M. (Eds.) 2017. Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
10.Wilson, P. A., and B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. 2014. Affective robotics: Modelling and testing cultural prototypes. Cognitive Computation 6(4): 814-840.
For twenty–two years I have been teaching practical English, mainly academic writing and academic skills in the Institute of English Studies. In addition, I have also conducted lectures, classes and seminars in psychology and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language. I supervised 9 BA theses (2005) and 9 MA theses (2014). I also reviewed 3 BA theses and 9 MA theses between 2013 and 2020.
I have been conducting lectures on “Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Variability in Emotion Concepts” at foreign universities within the Erasmus+ programme Staff Mobility for Teaching:
Universidad de Cádiz, Spain (2023)
Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, Czech Republic (2023)
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, Košice, Slovakia (2022)
Universidad de Lleida, Spain (2021)
Universidad de Cádiz, Spain (2021)
Universidad de Granada, Spain (2020)
Univerzita Mateja Bela, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (2019)
Západočeská Univerzita, Plzeň, Czech Republic (2019)
Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika, Košice, Slovakia a (2018)
Masarykova Univerzita, Brno, Czech Republic y (2017)