Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos PhD, MA, FHEA
Associate Professor, Director of Doctoral Programmes
Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos is an Associate Professor in Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton.
I hold a PhD in Linguistics (Sociolinguistic ethnography) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, an MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia and an MA in Linguistics (Discourse Analysis) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I have been a member of the Modern Languages and Linguistics at Southampton since 2012. Prior to this I lived and worked in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, where I taught and researched at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, for over ten years.
Since 2014 I have co-ordinated the Distance PhD programme run by the University of Southampton in collaboration with the British Council in Mexico. I teach modules on Cultural Studies in Contemporary Spain, Multilingualism, Language and Society and on Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. My research on multilingualism, social interaction and institutions has been published internationally in various leading journals and in edited collections, such as handbooks and other volumes on sociolinguistics. I have co-edited Special Issues for Spanish in Context (2012) and the International Journal of Sociology of Language (2018).