Marta Coll-Florit

Marta Coll-Florit has a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, specializing Applied Linguistics (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC), an MA from the doctoral programme in Cognitive Science and Language (University of Barcelona, UB) and a degree in General Linguistics (UB).

She has worked at the UOC since 2005, where she is currently an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (permanent position). Within this department she is the director of the joint bachelor's degree in Translation, Interpretation and Applied Languages (UOC-UVic/UCC) and the principal investigator of the Interuniversity Research Group in Linguistic Applications (GRIAL) (UOC, UB and University of Lleida). She has research accreditation (Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU), 2013), for two six-year periods (AQU research periods) and two teaching periods with a rating of excellence. 

Her main lines of research are corpus linguistics and discourse analysis based on the theory of the conceptual metaphor (cognitive linguistics). She has written more than 60 publications on these subjects, including 33 articles in indexed journals (including Metaphor and Symbol, Cognitive Psychology, Text & Talk and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory), she has supervised two doctoral theses, and has taken part in numerous competitive research projects, including the interdisciplinary MOMENT project, her most recent project as principal investigator: Metaphors of severe mental disorders. Discourse analysis of affected persons and mental health professionals (FFI2017-86969-R, AEI/ERDF, EU, R+D+I Programme Oriented to the Challenges of Society, 2018-2021).