Dr Petre Breazu
- Assistant Research Professor
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- DTAL
- TR-20, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ, CB3 9DP
About
Dr Petre Breazu specialises in multimodal critical discourse studies, focusing on how racism and discrimination are legitimised and normalised across media and digital platforms. His earlier research examined the representation of Roma and other marginalised communities in European media and political discourse.
Petre’s current research explores the generative and analytical capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), with particular emphasis on uncovering racial, gendered, political and other biases embedded these models. Additionally, he investigates the potential of LLMs to enhance qualitative multimodal analysis.
Dr Breazu is a former recipient of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
Research
Research interests:
Discourse and hate speech; multimodal and critical discourse analysis; media and political representations of marginalised communities; visual culture, social media communication; generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs); human–AI collaboration in qualitative research.
Recent research projects:
2021-2023 European Commission/Horizon 2020. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship: ‘Romaphobia in the Age of Populism: A Comparative Analysis of UK and Swedish Media’.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching interests:
(Multimodal) Critical Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Semiotics, Qualitative Research Methods