Professor in Humanities and Medicine

Srikant Sarangi is Professor in Humanities and Medicine and Director of the Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine (DIHM) at Aalborg University, Denmark. Between 1993 and 2013, he was Professor in Language and Communication and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University (UK), where he continues as Emeritus Professor. Beginning 2017, he is also Adjunct Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, Visiting Professor at University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Visiting Professor at the College of Medicine, Qatar University.

In 2012, he was awarded the title of ‘Fellow’ by the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. In 2015, he was elected as a ‘Foreign Member’ of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Societas Scientiarum Fennica).

His research interests include: institutional and professional discourse from an applied linguistics perspective (e.g., health, social welfare, bureaucracy, education etc.); communication in genetic counselling, HIV/AIDS, telemedicine, primary care and palliative care; communication ethics; teaching and assessment of consulting and communication skills; language and identity in public life; intercultural pragmatics. He has held several project grants to study various aspects of health communication.

He is author and editor of twelve books, guest-editor of nine journal special issues and has published more than 250 journal articles and book chapters in leading journals. He is the editor of TEXT & TALK: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies as well as founding editor of both Communication & Medicine and Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice.

• Sarangi, S. (Ed.) (2019). Interpreter Mediated Healthcare Consultations. Equinox Publishing. Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions.
• Jensen, T. D., & Sarangi, S. (2018). Ways of ‘appealing to the institution’ in interprofessional rehabilitation team decision-making. Journal of Pragmatics, 129, 102-119.
• Hammerstad, G. T., Andenæs, E., Gundrosen, S., & Sarangi, S. (2016). Discourse types and (re)distribution of responsibility in simulated emergency team encounters. Communication & Medicine – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society, 13(1), 51-70.

You can find all the publications here.