I am currently a doctoral candidate working on a project exploring Family Language Policy and Child Language Brokering in the Scottish context. See my PhD student profile.

In 2018, I received Early Career Researcher funding through the AHRC-OWRI Creative Multilingualism project. This ongoing project All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging continues to find success under its own momentum — see Research Interests and Publications sections for further information.

In parallel to my research interests, I have a lifelong passion for teaching with teaching experience spanning over two decades. Since 2015, I have also been delivering GTCS-accredited professional teacher trainer courses — see Teaching section for further information.

Before beginning my research career, in 2006 I started a successful Translation and Interpreting business, and maintain my links and involvement with the languages industry in Scotland and the wider UK. With the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) I was elected to Council, acted as the Secretary of its Scottish Society and coordinated the HE Language Partnership Scheme in Scotland, facilitating a professional partnership between the five main T&I studies providers in Scotland – including our own SMLC – and CIOL.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered Linguist, and fully registered with the GTCS for secondary Spanish, additionally holding provisional registration for ESOL — see Additional Information section for further information.

My current research interests lie in applied linguistics, translation and interpreting studies, sociolinguistics, language learning and teaching, and multilingualism with a special focus on:

• Child language brokering
• Language ideologies and language policy
• Translanguaging
• 1+2 approach to language learning
• Educational research
• Non-professional interpreting and translation and the ethics of PSI

I am a Multilingual Advisory Board Member for John Benjamins Target Online

Current Research Projects

Principal Investigator, All the World is Our Stage, 2018–present

This OWRI-funded project celebrates linguistic diversity and reflects on the multilingual, multicultural and superdiverse society represented in Glasgow today. This multilingual performance supports the teaching and learning journey of primary schooling in non-affluent areas of the city. Acknowledging that embedding every community language in the curriculum is not feasible, we specifically focus on creating contexts where the languages spoken at home enjoy the same status as those taught at school.

The public engagement activity of this project ranges from extraordinary school and local authority engagement, to taking the multilingual performance ‘All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging’ to the Scottish Parliament. During lockdown, the project received additional funding and a series of mini webinars has been produced and published fostering knowledge exchange and contributing to the legacy of Creative Multilingualism.

See Publications for other outputs.

Doctoral Project

Within my PhD, I investigate the language ideologies and linguistic practices of Spanish speaking families in contemporary Scotland, using a critical ethnographic sociolinguistic approach.

Additional Information

I am member of

• The Language and Society Cluster (SocioLang)
• Language Teaching Scholarship Cluster

Please see my PhD student profile for additional information.

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• 2022 UofG College of Arts Research Support Award (RSA) 
• 2022 UofG College of Arts 3-month fully-funded PhD Extension
• 2021 UofG SMLC Research Fund award for 'All the World is Our Stage...' website build
• 2021 College of Arts PGR Community Building and Public Engagement Fund award
  • Writing Retreat with a Beat♩♫♬ a virtual space for the UofG PGR and academic community to write with music
• 2020 AHRC–OWRI Creative Multilingualism Funding Extension
  • All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging Webinar Series
• 2019 ISSOTL International Collaborative Writing Group Travel Award
• 2019 ISSOTL International Collaborative Emerging Scholar Award
• 2018 AHRC–OWRI Creative Multilingualism Early Career Researcher Funding
  • PI: All the World is Our Stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging
• 2018–22 College of Arts Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Glasgow
  • Tuition fees and research award
• 2018 School of Social Sciences Postgraduate Scholarship, Heriot-Wat University
  • Fee waiver and research support

Previous Committees and Other Roles

• Coordinator 1+2 Training collaboration Local Authority and Head of Languages, UWS (2016–18)
• Lead Language Immersion Days for Higher and Advanced Higher, UWS (2017–18)
• Liaison Officer (Languages & Education) PGDEs Programme Board; Learning and Teaching Committee BAs; Education and UG and PGDE Programmes; Member Languages Section Learning & Teaching Committee, UWS (2015–18)

Teaching

Course Coordination

• Co-convener Level 1 & 2 Spanish BAs Education, UWS (2015–18)
• Convener Level 2 Spanish BAs Education and PGDE Primary and Secondary, UWS (2016–18)

Supervision and Mentorship

• Supervisor non-Arts Languages and Law Honours student, UofG (2019)
• Mentor and Tutor Erasmus + interns BAs Education, UWS (2015–18)
• Mentor Club En español initiative led by Erasmus+ Interns, UWS (2015–18)
• Mentor Students on placement in Secondary Education (2014)
• Supervisor 3^rd year student summer work placement abroad, UWS (2017)

Assessor and Developer Roles

• DELE A1– A2 & C1–C2 (Spanish as a foreign language)Examiner, Instituto Cervantes (2021 & 2016)
• Spanish Advanced Higher Prelims Content Developer, City of Edinburgh Council (2015–16)
• PLL resources and materials Developer, LFEE GTCS-Accredited (2015–16)
• IGCSE Spanish Cambridge International Examiner (2014)
• Nat 5, New Higher and AH Content Developer, Voice Over, Translation, City of Edinburgh Council (2014–16)
• DPSI (SQCF Level 10) Examiner, CIOL (2011–20)

Course Delivery

Teaching 2022/23

Primary and Secondary Teacher Trainer, LFEE (2015–)

• Spanish Primary Language Learning intensive twilights (CPD) various LAs in Scotland
• Erasmus+ funded Primary Language Learning courses in Spain
• Erasmus+ funded GTCS-Acc. Secondary Teachers 3-week immersion courses in Spain 
• Online Spanish Language & Methodology Secondary Teacher Secondary education 2021 launch & 2023 delivery
  • both online and in-person training meets GTCS residence criterion for second modern language registration (in lieu of > 3months living abroad)

Tutor 'Module 2: Transformative Pedagogies', Learning Design and ESD – 1st Ed. Online Course, UNESCO IESALC

• Mentor specialist training for the practical portion of the module 'Transformative Pedagogies' as part of the first UNESCO–IESALC mentor training in 'Pedagogical Design and Education for Sustainable Development Bootcamp' https://www.iesalc.unesco.org/en/eds-bootcamp/ In Spanish: https://www.iesalc.unesco.org/2021/10/15/60-mentores-voluntarios-seleccionados-para-transformar-a-la-sociedad-a-traves-de-la-educacion-para-el-desarrollo-sostenible/?fbclid=IwAR2nnfi3HbntGtNToAyQsBQRqXv8dg6AcXKPaEHVzTteu8gwgu6KRmF7_qI (2020–21)

• GTA Spanish Language 2 (Level 2) UofG (2020–21)
  • Oral Spanish Junior Honours (Level 3)
  • Oral Spanish Senior Honours (Level 4)
• GTA Translation Studies: An intro. to key topics in theory & practice (Level 4) UofG (2019–21)
• Tutor Business and Liaison Interpreting (Level 5) HWU (2018–19)
  • Mini-Conferences (Levels 2 & 5)
  • Intro. to Languages and Intercultural Studies Seminar (Levels 1 & 2)
• Marker Translation and Interpreting Studies Dissertations (Level 4) HWU (2018–19)
• Associate Lecturer Spanish BA Hons. Ed. (Level 1) UWS (2015–18)
  • Spanish BA Hons. Ed. (Level 2)
  • Spanish BA Hons. Ed. PGDE Primary (Level 5)
  • Spanish BA Hons. Ed. PGDE Secondary (Level 5)
  • Spanish, Spanish Teaching methodologies & pedagogies (Levels 1, 2, 5 & 1+2)
  • 1+2 Approach to Language Learning (linguistic component) UWS (2015–18)
• Associate Lecturer Spanish BA Hons. Community Education (Level 1) UWS (2016–18)
• Teacher Trainer Spanish PLL CPD training in Scotland, LFEE (2015–16)

Esteem Indicators

• SCILT Roll of Honour for AtWiOS Research Impact during Languages Week Scotland 2022
• Winner Estelle Brisard Memorial Prize 2021 for the research paper 'Embedding pedagogical translanguaging in mainstream education: a case study'
  • The Estelle Brisard Memorial Prize is is an annual accolade to an early career educational researcher for excellence and promise in their work awarded by the Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA)
• Shortlisted for GUSRC Student Teaching Awards 2021 'Outstanding Contribution to Teaching' (Video available)
• Shortlisted for GUSRC Student Teaching Awards 2021 'Best feedback' (Video available)
• Fellow Higher Education Academy FHEA AdvanceHE (2019 – direct application)
• Elected Member CIOL Council (2018–20 resigned from post)
• Lead Scotland-wide CIOL HE Language Partnership (2017–20)
  • Spearheaded the Scheme in Scotland facilitating a professional partnership between the four main T&I studies providers in Scotland and CIOL
• Secretary CIOL Scottish Society, Twitter Content Manager & Events Joint Coordinator (2016–19)
  • bridging professional-academia gap: leading and ensuring relevance of academic–practitioner 12 events
  • Twitter launch: handed over with 146 following and 845 followers (~23 new/month)
• Postgraduate Leadership Programme 20PGRs selected UofG-Wide (Jan–Mar 2021)
• Scottish Government SIG Wider Engagement Network Member (2017–)
• Working Group FE/HE & UCMLS/SCILT Joint Initiatives Member (2017–18)
• UCMLS Regional Cross-Sector Hub West Hub Member (2015–)

Academic Impact and Public Engagement

Knowledge Exchange

• ‘Creative language learning: using pedagogical translanguaging to celebrate multilingualism and home languages’ co-presented practitioners & parents SCILT Creative Spring series, May 2023
• Keynote TeachMeet Modern Foreign Language Icons The National TeachMeet Network, December 2022
• Online Multilingual Performances Fife & West Lothian LAs ~100 attendees, June 2022
• TiLT webinar ‘A virtual multilingual performance to celebrate language learning and linguistic diversity in isolation’ Association for Language Learning (ALL), April 2021
• ‘Autonomy and self-regulation: co-creation to mitigate the impact of COVID and support Honours students’. Online workshop UofG College of Arts, March 2021
• AtWiOS and translanguaging workshop for implementation in East Dunbarton, February 2020
• AtWiOS and translanguaging presentation to PGDE students University of Strathclyde, January 2020
• Talks on cultural and education topics 3Ls Spanish Club University of Strathclyde, 2020, '18 & '16
• Workshops 9th Young Interpreters Conference Basingstoke – Hampshire EMTAS, June 2019
  • Translation & Interpreting Workshops Primary, Secondary & College levels
• Multilingual Performance Scottish Parliament >100 attendees, November 2019
• ‘The Ethics of PSI’ Workshop on Internat. Translation Day for CIOL Scot Soc, September 2019
• Multilingual Performance Community Central Hall, Glasgow ~150 attendees, November 2018
• Multilingual Performance Whinhill Primary School, Greenock >300 attendees, November 2018
• Lecture MEd Prog.: ‘Language Power Differentials in Public Service Interpreting’ UWS, March 2019 & '18
• T&I Presentations, SWATI (Starting Work as Translator or Interpreter) HWU, February 2019, '18 & '13
• T&I Presentation, Univ. Stirling on behalf of CIOL, November 2017
• Workshop CLIL interdisciplinary multilingual lecture Into Teaching Conference UWS, June 2017
• Presentation on UWS languages programmes at the Languages Network Group Scotland (LANGS), University of Dundee, June 2017
• Chair Medical & Legal Trans. Trans. Training Symposium in the Digital Age Univ. Stirling, June 2014
• ‘The Ethics of Court Interpreting’ complementing training of court interpreters in Scotland, April 2014

Conference presentation

• Estelle Brisard winning paper presentation SERA Conference UWS, March 2022
• Keynote speaker 'FLP at the intersection with 1+2 in the Scottish Education context', October 2021
  • Jornadas Jean Monnet Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• AtWiOS research presentation and discussion University of Oxford, March 2020 (cancelled Covid-19)
• Presentation on AtWiOS project SOAS University of London, February 2020
• Presentation on AtWiOS pilot British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Seminar Swansea Univ., November 2018

Conference Organiser / Administration

• Co-organiser & Discussion facilitator ‘On the move: children and family’s communication and wellbeing’ Seminar Univ. Stirling, February 2019
• Co-organiser AGM 2018 Conférence Internationale Permanente d’Instituts Universitaires De Traducteurs et Interprètes (CIUTI) HWU, May 2018

Professional activities beyond the University

• Scotland-wide Coordinator CIOL HE Language Partnership Scheme, 2017–20
  • Spearheaded Scheme facilitating professional partnerships between the four main HE T&I studies providers in Scotland (Stirling, HWU, UoE & UofG) and CIOL

• Secretary CIOL Scottish Society, Twitter Content Manager & Events Coordinator, 2016–19     
  • Bridging professional-academia gap: leading & ensuring relevance of academic–practitioner 12 events. Twitter launch & grew to 845 followers (~23 new/month)

Professional memberships

• SERA Member 2022–
• IATIS Member 2021–
• Anglo-Catalan Society Member 2019–
• BAAL Member 2018–
• IAPTI Member 2017–
• CIOL Chartered Linguist, Interpreter 2017–
• SALT Member 2016–
• MCIL English & ACIL Catalan 2010–
• ITI English 2010–
• GTCS – Full registration Spanish & Provisional ESOL 2009–

Translation and Interpreting Practice

Freelance Linguist Spanish (A) English (B) Catalan and French (C)

• Professional website – EneidaLinguist
  • Translation and Transcription
  • Conference Interpreting
  • Cinema Industry
  • Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT)

Clearance

• Vetted by Vetting Unit FCO Services 2016–
• PVG Scheme 2013–
• Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance 2012–
• Enhanced Disclosure Scotland 2008–
• Spanish Enhanced CRB 2007