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

Dr Jaine Beswick is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics 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 sociolinguistics and social psychological studies, including multilingualism and migration. I am Head of SPLAS, member of the following Research Centres: CLLEAR (Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research) (TNS) Transnational Studies, and CGE (Centre for Global Englishes) as well as the university-wide Centre of Excellence for the Future of Human Communication.