Research interests and projects

Interests

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.

Expertise

Multilingualism
Language policy
Critical Discourse Studies
Critical Sociolinguistics
Ethnography
Language and work
Language in business
Language and education
Language and elites
Wales

Projects

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)
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)

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)
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)