Research interests and projects
Interests
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My research comprises the role of English and multilingualism in education and work settings, as well as minority language policy, specifically in Wales. I investigate elite and precarious multilingualism in contexts of migration and a globalised knowledge economy, mainly using Critical Discourse Studies and Ethnography as my major research approaches.
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Expertise
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Multilingualism
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Language policy
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Critical Discourse Studies
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Critical Sociolinguistics
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Ethnography
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Language and work
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Language in business
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Language and education
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Language and elites
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Wales
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Projects
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My current project focuses on the discourses, ideologies and practices of elite multilingualism in the context of adult language education, native speakerism and standard language ideology (ongoing)
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I acted as Case Study Lead in the SpraBÜ project "Newly arrived migrant children and their transition from preparatory to mainstream classes in a German public school", funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) (2020-2023)
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I am also a Collaborator in the international project "Linguistic Equality in Political Transitions" in Canada, Wales and Catalonia, funded by the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2019-2024)
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I was Principal Investigator in a discourse-ethnographic project on "Adult multilingualism in an Austrian language education company", funded by Vienna University of Economics and Business (2015)
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