Qualifications

2010    PhD in Linguistics - Queen Mary, University of London

            Thesis title: ‘Language attitudes in Québec: a contemporary perspective’

            Thesis supervisors: Leigh Oakes and Jenny Cheshire

2005    MA in Modern Languages - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany

2002    MA in Linguistics - University of Durham

I am a sociolinguist with a strong interest in the social psychology of language. I am particularly interested in societal multilingualism and related phenomena such as language attitudes, social identities, language endangerment, and language policy and planning.

Teaching

I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, a number of colleges of the University of London (Queen Mary, Birkbeck, and the School of Oriental and African Studies) as well as the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in Germany.

I am now a Teaching Fellow in English Language at Liverpool Hope University.