My research focuses on the relationship between language and identity, especially in the context of contemporary Britain, pre- and post-Brexit. My current projects investigate bi/multilingual practices and identity construction amongst adolescents, and how these various practices may be at play in different spaces. I am also involved in Polish migration work, and have recently completed a Covid-19 related project which explored the impact of the lockdown on Polish Saturday schools in the UK, and the subsequent impact on heritage language learning. I specialise in narrative inquiry, exploring how narrative can be a means to construct identity, both for the individual and for nation states.

I am also involved with the ethical nature of research, including the questions that arise when working with adolescents and young people; and the ethics of data translation and transcription in multilingual research.