Dr Jaine Beswick PhD, PGDip, MA, BA
Associate Professor, Head, SPLAS (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies)

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Dr Jaine Beswick is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton.
Having graduated from the University of Salford with a BA Hons in Spanish, Portuguese and French with Linguistics, and from the University of Manchester with an MA in Language and Linguistics, I completed a doctorate entitled The Velar Nasal in Galician: Case-Study of a Linguistic Variable in a Bilingual Community at the University of Bristol. I am currently Associate Professor in Linguistics, with specialisations in Portuguese, Galician and Spanish sociolinguistic migration studies including phonetic and phonological multilingualism, variation and change. I am Chair of Residence Abroad Committee, Programme Coordinator for Portuguese Studies, ML Health and Safety Officer, Portuguese Exams Officer, and member of the Centre for Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research (CLLEAR) and Centre for Transnational Studies (TNS).