Her research explores the relationships between language, gender and sexuality, typically taking a sociocultural linguistics approach to the analysis of interactional data. She is the author of Dyke/Girl: Language and Identities in a Lesbian Group (Palgrave, 2012), and has current and forthcoming work in Gender and Language, Journal of Homosexuality and Journal of Language and Sexuality. Her current research includes an ethnographic study with members of an LGBT youth group (with a focus on intersectionality and homonormativity), and she is involved in a collaborative project analysing same-sex marriage debates in the British media. She tweets about linguistics and academia at @jones_lucy.