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Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, Phonetics, Phonology, Endangered languages, Francoprovençal, Arpitan
United Kingdom

Biography

MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Kent), FHEA. I am a Senior Lecturer in French and Linguistics at the University of Westminster with a research focus on language contact and language variation change in lesser-studied languages. Much of my work has focused on testing principles of linguistic change through production and perception in diverse linguistic ecologies. I am particularly interested in community-based research methods. I am happy to receive PhD and Masters supervision requests in any of these areas area.

I am currently involved in a number of ongoing research projects, including:

Towards safeguarding Chagossian Creole: Understanding how language attitudes and ideologies shape practice in exile and exodus (funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, SRG2324\240017)

Universals of Linguistic Change in Language Obsolescence (previously funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ECF-2017-584, 2017-2020),

The Linguistics in MFL Project (previously funded by UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council's Open World Research Initiative "Language Acts World Making").

Prior to joining Westminster, I lectured at Queen Mary University of London from 2015, predominantly in quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistics and research methods. Before arriving at Queen Mary, from 2014-2015, I held two posts simultaneously: I was Associate Lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Kent, where I taught introductory linguistic theory and sociolinguistics, and I also held the post of Maître de langue in the Département du monde anglophone at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, where I taught courses in applied phonology and linguistic variation.

I am a Senior Visiting Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Suffolk. I was Co-editor (2015-2020) of the Journal of French Language Studies' sister-journal Cahiers, and I am now (2021-Present) Research Notes Editor on the Board of the Journal of French Language Studies. I sit on academic executive committees for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (External Relations) and the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics (Treasurer).

Activities

Employment (5)

University of Westminster: London, GB

2019-01-03 to present | Lecturer (Prof.) in French and Linguistics (School of Humanities)
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Queen Mary University of London: London, London, GB

2017-09-01 to present | Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow (Linguistics)
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Queen Mary University of London: London, London, GB

2015-09-01 to 2017-08-31 | Teaching Fellow in Sociolinguistics (Department of Linguistics)
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Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3: Paris, Île-de-France, FR

2014-09-28 to 2015-06-31 | Maître de langue étrangère (Institut du monde anglophone)
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University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, GB

2011-09-20 to 2014-08-01 | Graduate Teaching Assistant (Department of English Language and Linguistics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Kent: Canterbury, Kent, GB

2011-09-25 to 2015-07-28 | PhD Linguistics (Department of English Language and Linguistics)
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University of Cambridge: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

2009-10-01 to 2010-10-01 | M.Phil Linguistics (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics)
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