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- Senior Lecturer In Applied Linguistics
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
I received my PhD. in Socio- and Applied Linguistics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at King’s College London (2010-2011) and The University of Hong Kong (2011-2012). I have worked as Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2012-2015) where I was also appointed Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education (2016-2017).
I am co-editor of Language Policy journal (Springer) and Language, Culture and Society (John Benjamins). I also serve as Co-President of EDiSo Association for Studies in Discourse and Society (http://www.edisoportal.org).


- Benswait, A. & Pérez-Milans, M. (2022). Pressing times, losing voice: Critique and transformative spaces in higher education. London Review of Education 20(1) DOI: 10.14324/LRE.20.1.30
- Pérez-Milans & Guo (2020). Hoping for success, becoming a spiritual subject: Converted returnees in China. Language, Culture and Society 2(2), 197-226. Open access here.
- Pérez-Milans (2021). Futures, imagined cities and emerging markets: The semiotic production of professional selves. Social Semiotics 31(1), 155-176.
- Pérez-Milans (2020). Transnational trajectories of multilingual workers: Emerging geographies and spatializing practices of mutant sovereignty. International Journal of Multilingualism 17(1), 97-106.
- Tollefson & Pérez-Milans (Eds.) (2018). Oxford Handbook of Language Policy and Planning. Oxford: OUP.
- Soto & Pérez-Milans (2018). Language, neoliberalism and the commodification of pedagogy. Language and Intercultural Communication 18 (5), 490-506.
- Pérez-Milans, M., Soto, C. (2016). Reflexive language and ethnic minority activism in Hong Kong: A trajectory-based analysis. AILA Review 29 (1), 48-82.
Sociolinguistics; Spoken Discourse Analysis; Research Methods; Intercultural Communication; Critical Readings of Popular Culture; Language Policy and Planning; Bilingualism & Multilingualism; Discourse, Culture & Society.
JAN-2016 | Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics | Culture, Communication and Media | UCL Institute of Education, United Kingdom |
JAN-2016 – AUG-2017 | Honorary Associate Professor | Faculty of Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
SEP-2013 – DEC-2015 | Assistant Professor - Tenure-track | faculty of Education -Division of English Language Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
SEP-2012 – AUG-2013 | Temporary Assistant Professor | Faculty of Education -Division of English Language Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
SEP-2011 – AUG-2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Faculty of Education | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
SEP-2010 – AUG-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Education and Professional Studies | King's College London, United Kingdom |
SEP-2008 – FEB-2009 | Visiting Lecturer | Department of Sociology and Communication | University of Salamanca, Spain |
SEP-2005 – JAN-2013 | Teaching Consultant | East Asian Studies | Open University of Catalonia, Spain |
MAY-2004 – MAY-2008 | Assistant Researcher | Linguistics and Modern Languages | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain |
2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | |
2004 | Master of Arts | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | |
2003 | Postgraduate Diploma | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | |
2002 | Licenciatura | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | |
2000 | Bachelor of Education | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |