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Dr Miguel Perez-Milans
620A
20 Bedford Way
London
United Kingdom
WC1H OAL
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Appointment
  • Senior Lecturer In Applied Linguistics
  • IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
  • UCL Institute of Education
Biography

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).  

Research Groups
Research Summary
I am interested in language, discourse, institutions, social interaction and political economy. I have conducted ethnographic research on mobility and migration, shifting politics of national identity, activism, neoliberalisation of educational institutions and trajectories of young professionals in the making. Some of my publications include:    


  • 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. 

Teaching Summary

Sociolinguistics; Spoken Discourse Analysis; Research Methods; Intercultural Communication;  Critical Readings of Popular Culture; Language Policy and Planning; Bilingualism & Multilingualism; Discourse, Culture & Society.   

Appointments
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
Academic Background
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
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