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Appointment
- Lecturer in Education
- IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment
- UCL Institute of Education
- Lecturer (Teaching)
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education
Biography
I am a Lecturer at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, based at the Dept. of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (CPA); I also contribute to modules within the Dept. of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM), and have worked at the Centre for Language and International Education (CLIE). I have also worked as a Researcher in collaboration with the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies. Previously, I worked at Royal Holloway, University of London.
I received my PhD in Applied Linguistics from UCL, following my MRes in Educational and Social Research at IOE. 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.
Research Themes
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My work sits at the intersection of applied linguistics, migration, and education, where I examine the relationship between language and identity, especially in the context of contemporary Britain, both pre- and post-Brexit. I am interested in bi/multilingual practices and identity construction, and how these practices may be at play in different spaces. I am also involved in Polish migration research, and 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 questions of researcher positionality, and the issues that arise when working with adolescents and young people.
Teaching Summary
Currently, I am Deputy Module Leader for the Dissertation Module on the MA Education, where I am also Module Ethics Coordinator. I am an Academic and Pastoral Tutor on the programme, where I also teach on the Understanding Research module, and on the Communicating Knowledge PGT module. I am also Module Leader for the UG module, as part of the BA Education Studies programme.
On the MA Applied Linguistics/TESOL programme, I have been a Dissertation Supervisor since 2019; I also teach on the Research Methods and Language at Work modules. In previous years, I have worked on the MA English Education, and the pre-sessional courses for the Centre for Languages and International Education. I also taught on the pre-sessional courses at Royal Holloway, University of London.
As a subsidiary supervisor, I can support doctoral students whose research explores the following areas:
- Identity studies
- Language and migration
- Complementary schooling
- Narrative research
Academic Background
| 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 |
