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- Lecturer (Teaching)
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
- Lecturer (Teaching) MA Education
- IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment
- UCL Institute of Education
I am a Lecturer at UCL Institute of Education, where I have worked in the Dept. of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM), the Dept. of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (CPA), and the Centre for Language and International Education (CLIE). I received my PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCL, following my MRes in Educational and Social Research at the Institute of Education. Prior to this, I worked in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and FLE (French as a Foreign Language), and lived in Greece and Hungary for several years.


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 currently working on a Covid-19 related project which explores the impact of the lockdown on Polish complementary schools, 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.
2020 | Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | UCL | |
2019 | ATQ02 - Recognised by the HEA as an Associate Fellow | University College London | |
2018 | Doctorat | University College London | |
2014 | Master of Research | University College London | |
1994 | Master of Arts | Queen Mary College, University of London | |
1993 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | Royal Holloway |