Jana Declercq

Experience

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  Universiteit Gent

  Oct 2014 - May 2019

  My PhD dissertation examined how health news is discursively co-produced by journalists, biomedical stakeholders, and the audience. Using a linguistic ethnographic perspective, it aimed to uncover complex dynamics of this production process, as producing health news is more than just translating scientific terminology into journalistic discourse that are accessible for laypeople audiences. Health news production does not just happen in the newsroom by journalists, but is a matter intense co-production by journalists, audiences, biomedical and other stakeholders. As a result and at the same time as a prerequisite for this co-production, the practices of each of these stakeholders have seeped into the practices of the other stakeholders. Each of these sets of practices have been increasingly hybridized and entangled with one another. Moreover, producing health news also involves constructing what health is, how health issues should be attended to, what news is, what (good) journalism is, who the authority has to speak about health and about solutions for health issues, both on an individual and on a societal and institutional level, and who has the responsibility to execute these solutions. These constructions all both reflect and (re)produce dominant discourses and perspectives on these issues in society. Show less

  • Postdoctoral researcher

    Jul 2018 - May 2019

  • Lecturer Business English

    Sept 2015 - May 2019

  • PhD researcher

    Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
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  Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

  Jun 2019 - Sept 2023

  Universitair docent/assistant professor

  As part of the Center of Language and Cognition Groningen, and the research group Discourse and Communication.Teaching at the Communication and Information Studies programme.

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  Universiteit Antwerpen

  Sept 2023 - now

  Associate Professor Professional and Academic Communication @UAntwerpen