Understanding language heritages, supporting literacies and cultural enrichment
Research Area
Cultural and Museum Studies
Conferences
'Story Valley and Translating Cultures', Translating Cultures with UNESCO Cities of Literature Symposium. University of Exeter, July 2023.
'Story Valley and Scots', Engaging with Language as Heritage. Nottingham Trent University, March 2023.
Other Research Interests
Sociolinguistics
Language policy and planning
Cultural policy
Multilingualism
Language attitudes
Corpus linguistics
French linguistics
Russian linguistics
Memberships
British Association of Applied Linguistics
Professional Experience
Research Assistant, ‘Languages are everywhere and nowhere’: unearthing UK language policy. Updating the Promoting Language Policy repository with recent UK legislation (Sep-Dec 2024).
Research Assistant, 'Rhymes and Reasons of Nottingham's Multilingualism',Being Human Festival (Nov 2023).
Project Coordinator, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature. Major projects delivered: Our Stories LGBTQ+ publishing conference (Nov 2023), Slamovision international poetry competition (Dec 2023), Big City Reads summer reading campaign (Jul-Aug 2024).
Research Associate, Story Valley. Erasmus+ international project aimed at engaging students in literacy and language learning through creative storytelling.
Prizes and awards
Midlands4Cities PhD studentship (2024-2028) funded by AHRC.
Best Dissertation, ‘The Language of Intranational Communication’: Re-visiting the Role of Russian in the Context of the Russian Federation’s Constitutional Amendments of 2020. Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, 2021.
Best Final Year Essay, To what extent can it be said that the standardisation of the French language has had a detrimental effect on the use of regional languages in France? Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham, 2021.
