ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS)

The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University was founded in 2013, and has received over £9 million funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council as well as other governmental, private and charitable funders.

CASS is a world leader in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of health(care) communication, including: patients’ feedback on the National Health Service; metaphors for cancer; first-person accounts of psychosis; obesity in the news; language in the diagnosis of chronic pain; and metaphors for COVID-19. 