I am interested in the phenomenon of identity in contexts of linguistic diversity. I examine multilingual identities in Anglophone higher educational settings, focusing on multilingualism in intersection with gender, social class and ethnicity and the ways in which language acts as a marker of identity and resource for doing identity work among students from diverse socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. I promote the idea of linguistic diversity as a resource to be welcomed rather than a problem to be solved within the sector and am working on the development of plurilingual approaches to teaching and learning in higher education. I lead The Multilingual University project (https://multilingualuniversity.org) and am the co-founder and co-convenor of the BAAL Multilingualism SIG. I have developed and lead a number of collaborative staff-student projects at UCL, including UCL ChangeMakers: The Multilingual University: making the most of linguistic diversity (UCL Institute of Education staff and students) and UCL Grand Challenges: What space for linguistic diversity in Brexit Britain? (UCL Institute of Education and Dept of Political Science staff and students in association with English for Action London).

I am the principle supervisor for a number of doctoral students working on qualitative and ethnographically oriented projects on multilingualism and language and identity related matters in educational settings around the world.