Journal Articles
Bullo, S. and Hearn, J. H. (2020) Parallel worlds and personified pain: A mixed-methods analysis of pain metaphor use by women with endometriosis. British Journal of Health Psychology, e12472. doi:10.1111/bjhp.12472
Koller, V. and Bullo, S. (2019). “Fight like a girl”: Tattoos as identity constructions for women living with illness. Multimodal Communication, 8(1). doi:10.1515/mc-2018-0006
Bullo, S. (2019). ‘I feel like I am being stabbed by a thousand tiny men’: The challenges of communicating endometriosis pain. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, pp. 1-17. doi:10.1177/1363459318817943
Bullo, S. (2018). Exploring disempowerment in women’s accounts of endometriosis experiences. Discourse and Communication, 12(6), pp. 569-586. doi:10.1177/1750481318771430
Conference Presentations
Parallel worlds and personified pain: A mixed-methods analysis of metaphor use by women with endometriosis (with Dr Jasmine Hearn)
European Health Psychology Society Conference, August 2020
Exploring disempowerment in women’s accounts of endometriosis experiences
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, April 2019
The challenges of communicating endometriosis pain
Linguistics Research Seminar, University of Huddersfield, October 2018
Multimodal accounts of endometriosis pain: A hands-on approach (with Zoe Bibbon)
BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG Workshop, King’s College London, November 2018
Endometriosis pain description and diagnosis delay: A cognitive linguistic study
BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG Workshop, Lancaster University, November 2017
The language of endometriosis: Exploring linguistic descriptions of pain
Family Health Research Cluster, Birmingham City University, November 2017
Exploring discourses of endometriosis and dis/empowerment
BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG, University of Leeds, September 2017
Media Appearances
RAH! Podcast at Manchester Met
Perceptions of Menstruation and Endometriosis
BBC Radio World Service
The women having to resort to using metaphors to describe the pain of endometriosis
The Sun
Millions with endometriosis face SEVEN-YEAR delay to get correct diagnosis, experts warn
