Personal profile

Research

I am a linguist and specialist in English sociolingustics and English language, with research interests in pronunciation variation and change, dialectology, language attitudes and language ideology, accent stylisation, elite sociolects, as well as the sociolinguistic status of English in the world. I have previously worked on a project concerned with the sociolinguistic consequences of internationalisation in Higher Education. My research work is at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences, since I have used humanistic and social science methods to investigate the nature of human language variation and change and its implications for social contexts and lived experiences. I have recently started research work drawing on semiotic traditions and looking at framing of parody, as well as collaboration difficulties playing out in student group chats. 

Teaching

I am presently Head of Studies and House Coordinator of the Global Humanities BA programme. I teach in the progression courses Study Competence and Project management, as well as Knowledge Communication. I have in the past supervised students in interdisciplinary Text and Sign projects at all levels of the BA programme, as well as as MA level. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

Education/Academic qualification

Sociolinguistics, Ph.D., T-glottalling between stigma and prestige: a sociolinguistic study of modern RP, Copenhagen Business School

19972000

Award Date: 13 Sept 2000

Linguistics, Master of Arts, A comparative study of reduplication in Australian languages, The Australian National University

19881991

Award Date: 5 Apr 1991

Arts, double major in Linguistics, major in French, B.A. Hons., The University of Queensland

19841987

Award Date: 19 Dec 1987

Keywords

  • Language, Language usage, Philosophy of language
  • Language in society
  • Language change
  • Language attitudes
  • Sociophonetics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language Ideology
  • Received Pronunciation
  • Modern RP
  • Project management
  • linguistic anthropology
  • Framing theory
  • parody and framing
  • British English
  • Semiotics
  • Education, Learning, Training
  • Academic socialisation
  • PPL in practice
  • The first-year experience