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Our people

Find out more about the Debating Ethnography team.

Professor Adriana Patino

Professor

Sociolinguistic ethnography

Language socialisation

Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:A.Patino@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2208

Doctor Heidi Armbruster

Associate Professor

The anthropology of migration and borders

Email:H.Armbruster@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2210

Doctor Ka-Kin Cheuk

Lecturer in Anthropology

Transnationalism

Migration

Inter-Asian connections

Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:ka-kin.cheuk@soton.ac.uk

Professor Marion Demossier

Professor of French & European Studies

climate ethnography and environment and climate change

Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:M.Demossier@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2293

Mr Naji Alshorman

Email:N.M.Alshorman@soton.ac.uk

Miss Yifan Wu

  • Sociolinguistic ethnography
  • Language socialisation
  • Narrative inqui
Email:Yifan.Wu@soton.ac.uk