Penelope Scott

Penelope Scott is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She is also Acting Director of the University Research Centre for Culture, Communication, and Society. Her research interests include health and illness in Anglo-Saxon England, Old English semantics, conceptual metaphor, the senses in Old English, and the link between cognition and culture. She co-leads the Health Humanities Research Group, which is an interdisciplinary group that currently has 18 members from 10 academic units. 

Dr Scotts research interests include:

Language, Health, and Culture

Old English

Cultural linguistics

Anglo-Saxon medical texts

Head of Department of Applied Linguistics (2020-Present)

Acting Director, Research Centre for Culture, Communication, and Society at XJTLU (01/2026-Present)

Co-Leader, Research Group in Health Humanities, part of the CCCS Research Center at XJTLU (2022-Present)

Lecturer in Linguistics, XJTLU, 2013-2015

Associate Professor in Linguistics, 2015-Present

Head of Department, Department of Applied Linguistics, 2020-Present

HSS301 Health Humanities

LNG001 Thinking Like a Linguist

LNG401 Linguistics for Language Teachers

ENG325 Historical Linguistics

LNG206 Language and Mind

LNG205 Semantics and Pragmatics

LAN003 How Language Works

LAN002 Literature and Film

2010 Doctoral award: PhD English Language, Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Edinburgh

2005 Postgraduate award: MLitt Linguistics, Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Newcastle upon Tyne