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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.
Professor
Research interests
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Sociolinguistic ethnography
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Language socialisation
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Narrative inquiry/ biographical methods
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Adriana
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
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Online communication and online hate
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Corpus linguistics
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Critical discourse analysis
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Associate Professor
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Foreign language (FL) teaching and learning in instructed (school) settings, particulary the …
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The potential for cross-linguistic influence in early, beginner instructed FL learning.
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The role of evidence-informed pedagogies on teacher learning and practice.
Accepting applications from PhD students
Connect with Alison
Research interests
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ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision for Asylum Seekers and Refugees livi…
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Educational barriers encountered by marginalised groups.
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ESOL learning and English language teaching policy in the UK.
Connect with Amna
Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics
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Spanish sociolinguistics (global Spanish, Spain, Mexico, US Latinx)
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Language policy, ideologies and practices
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Language and migration
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Lecturer in ELT/TESOL
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Second language writing, writing assessment
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Corpus linguistics, learner corpora, phraseology
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Academic discourse, discourse analysis
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Head of Department
Research interests
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Syntactic theory
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Theories of the language faculty architecture, particularly the syntax-semantics interface an…
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Acquisition and attrition of syntax in bilingual speakers
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Senior Teaching Fellow
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Translation of Allusion
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Cognitive Translation Studies
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Translation Pedagogy
Accepting applications from PhD students
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Associate Professor
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Sociolinguistics/sociophonetics of Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and English
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Socio-psychological/geolinguistic spaces: borders, borderlands, diaspora, islands
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Migrant identities: authenticity, belonging, in groups/out groups
Connect with Jaine
