Email: ec1a23@soton.ac.uk
Betty’s pathway into teaching and researching on language education was shaped by personal experiences of mobility and multilingualism across different European contexts, which highlighted both the opportunities languages can create and the inequalities in access to them. Teaching in UK state schools further deepened her awareness of the structural challenges faced by teachers and learners. She is now a UKRI-funded PhD researcher at the University of Southampton and a member of the University’s Public Policy team. Her work sits at the intersection of classroom practice, research, and policy, with a focus on supporting teachers through practice-informed, collaborative research on AI in languages education, so that evidence from schools can meaningfully inform policy making in England.
