Janet Holmes awarded the RSNZ Dame Joan Metge Medal

Congratulations to Professor Janet Holmes who has been awarded the RSNZ Dame Joan Metge Medal.

Professor Janet Holmes received the Dame Joan Metge Medal for excellence in research and capacity building in social science.

Professor Holmes is an outstanding scholar who has made a unique contribution to linguistics with a particular focus on discourse analysis, including gendered discourse, the use of language in workplaces and in professions, leadership communication and sociolinguistics.