Dr Sadie Ryan

  • Lecturer in Languages and Intercultural Studies (School of Education)

Biography

Sadie completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow, graduating in English Literature and Creative Writing with first class honours. She went on to complete an MPhil in Linguistics, exploring the use of Glaswegian linguistic features on social media. She then did an interdisciplinary PhD in Linguistics and Education, funded by the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship, focusing on the linguistic and social experiences of young migrants in a Glasgow high school: in particular, it asked to what extent these pupils were acquiring local Glaswegian speech norms, and how this acquisition related to identity and self-perception. After completing her PhD, she became a Research Associate on the Manchester Voices project at Manchester Metropolitan University, before returning to the University of Glasgow’s School of Education as Lecturer in Languages and Intercultural Studies in 2022. 

Research interests

Sadie’s research interests include language and identity; language and social justice; educational linguistics; participatory methods; language and social class; language and migration; multilingualism; language and adolescence; and participatory podcasting. She also specialises in public engagement, and makes the award-winning linguistics podcast Accentricity [www.accentricity-podcast.com], which is aimed at a public, non-specialist audience, and aims to narrow the gap between academic knowledge about language and people’s everyday linguistic experiences. She leads the University of Glasgow Podcasting Collective, and is a member of the Young Academy of Scotland.

Publications

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2023

Ryan, S. D. , Dann, H. and Drummond, R. (2023) “Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data. Language in Society, 52(3), pp. 459-483. (doi: 10.1017/S0047404522000215)

2022

Dann, H., Ryan, S. D. and Drummond, R. (2022) Social meaning in archival interaction: a mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense BE in Oldham. English Language and Linguistics, 26(4), pp. 861-887. (doi: 10.1017/s1360674322000119)

Drummond, R., Dann, H., Tasker, S. and Ryan, S. D. (2022) The Manchester Voices Accent Van: taking sociolinguistic data collection on the road. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1), pp. 263-277. (doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0050)

2021

Ryan, S. D. (2021) “I just sound Sco[ʔ]ish now”: the acquisition of word-medial glottal replacement by Polish adolescents in Glasgow. English World Wide, 42(2), pp. 145-174. (doi: 10.1075/eww.00066.dur)

2019

Ryan, S. D. (2019) “We don’t count you as Polish, you’re just like us now”: language, integration and identity for adolescent migrants in Glasgow. In: Anderson, V. and Johnson, H. (eds.) Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings. Series: Studies in migration and diaspora. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9780367260347 (doi: 10.4324/9780429291159-6)

2018

Arizpe, E. and Ryan, S. (2018) The wordless picturebook: literacy in multilingual contexts and David Wiesner’s worlds. In: Bland, J. (ed.) Using Literature in English Language Education: Challenging Reading for 8–18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury Academic: London ; New York, pp. 63-82. ISBN 9781350034259 (doi: 10.5040/9781350034280.ch-004)

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Number of items: 6.

Articles

Ryan, S. D. , Dann, H. and Drummond, R. (2023) “Really this girl ought to be going to something better”: Rhoticity and social meaning in oral history data. Language in Society, 52(3), pp. 459-483. (doi: 10.1017/S0047404522000215)

Dann, H., Ryan, S. D. and Drummond, R. (2022) Social meaning in archival interaction: a mixed-methods analysis of variation in rhoticity and past tense BE in Oldham. English Language and Linguistics, 26(4), pp. 861-887. (doi: 10.1017/s1360674322000119)

Drummond, R., Dann, H., Tasker, S. and Ryan, S. D. (2022) The Manchester Voices Accent Van: taking sociolinguistic data collection on the road. Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1), pp. 263-277. (doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0050)

Ryan, S. D. (2021) “I just sound Sco[ʔ]ish now”: the acquisition of word-medial glottal replacement by Polish adolescents in Glasgow. English World Wide, 42(2), pp. 145-174. (doi: 10.1075/eww.00066.dur)

Book Sections

Ryan, S. D. (2019) “We don’t count you as Polish, you’re just like us now”: language, integration and identity for adolescent migrants in Glasgow. In: Anderson, V. and Johnson, H. (eds.) Migration, Education and Translation: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Human Mobility and Cultural Encounters in Education Settings. Series: Studies in migration and diaspora. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9780367260347 (doi: 10.4324/9780429291159-6)

Arizpe, E. and Ryan, S. (2018) The wordless picturebook: literacy in multilingual contexts and David Wiesner’s worlds. In: Bland, J. (ed.) Using Literature in English Language Education: Challenging Reading for 8–18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury Academic: London ; New York, pp. 63-82. ISBN 9781350034259 (doi: 10.5040/9781350034280.ch-004)

This list was generated on Mon Dec 11 05:04:09 2023 GMT.

Supervision

  • Wang, Hsiao Chiang
    Co-creating the Values of World Heritage Sites with Refugees: A World View Perspective

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