Olga Maria Kopaczyk PhD student

My research focuses on spoken academic knowledge popularisation, with a particular interest in podcasts. Podcasts are increasingly used as a means of disseminating scientific research, aligning with open science policy, knowledge democratisation, and transparency. Within this context, I am especially interested in how well-being research—both physical and mental—is communicated in an accessible and actionable way. Specifically, I examine the strategies employed to engage audiences, how specialised knowledge is transformed into practical, actionable protocols, and to what extent audiences interact with and respond to this content.
 

My MA dissertation investigated the use of we and its related plural forms (us, our, let’s) in podcasts, focusing on issues of clusivity (inclusive/exclusive) and referentiality.
 

More broadly, my research interests span corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, multimodality, and psycholinguistics.