Authors

Aisling O’Boyle is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Language Education Research at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research in language education engages with the socially embedded nature of language teaching and learning, including gender equality matters and community language education programs.

Alice Corr is Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in Ibero-Romance linguistics, morphosyntax and dialectology, with a particular focus on non-standard synchronic and diachronic variation. Her wider research interests include linguistic theory, language policy, language documentation, and linguistics in education. She is principal investigator of a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded documentation project on the grammar of Judeo-Spanish, and coordinates the Linguistics in Schools Transatlantic Educational Network (LISTEN!) initiative. She has published in a range of journals, and her first book is currently in preparation for publication with Oxford University Press.

Andreas Krogull is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, having previously held a position as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on historical sociolinguistics, multilingualism, standardization, and language policy and ideologies.

Andy Hancock is Head of the Graduate School of Education & Sport and Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Edinburgh.

Angela Tellier is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Essex and administrative coordinator for RiPL.

Antonella Sorace is professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.

Astrid Adler is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for German Language in Mannheim. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, especially on multilingualism, language attitudes and language statistics.

Baroness Coussins is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. She co-chairs the all-party parliamentary group on modern languages, is a vice -president of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and president of the Speak to the Future campaign.

Bas Aarts is Professor of English Linguistics at University College London, and Director of the Survey of English Usage.

Bernadette Holmes is director of Speak to the Future, the National Campaign for Languages and co-chair of RiPL.

Bettina Migge is Professor of Linguistics in the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin.

Cecilia Gialdini is a Research Associate at Trinity College Dublin and a Visiting Scholar at Queen's University Belfast. Previously they were a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, investigating policies and practices of inclusive pedagogy for migrant students. Their research interests focus on migration studies and linguistic justice.

Charles Burdett is Director of the Institute of Modern Languages Research and Professor of Italian Studies at Durham University. He is Chair of the Alliance of Modern Languages, Area Studies and Linguistics Subject Association (AMLUK). His research interests include travel writing, the legacy of Fascism and Italian colonialism, the representation of Islam and the Islamic world in contemporary Italy. He was Principal Investigator of the large grant, ‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014-2018). The project explored a series of critical instances of linguistic and cultural translation embedded within the histories of Italian mobility. He is co-editor of the volumes, Transnational Italian Studies (2020) and Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation (2020).

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool and Leadership Fellow for the AHRC ‘Translating Cultures’ theme.

Charlotte Ryland is Director of the Stephen Spender Trust and founding Director of the Queen’s College Translation Exchange (Oxford), organisations dedicated to promoting language-learning, multilingualism and translation. In both of these roles she works to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in international culture through translation, with a particular focus on bringing creative translation activities into UK schools. Charlotte recently co-founded the Future of Languages campaign, which brings together linguists from across the sector to develop and share an ambitious vision for language-learning. You can find her on Twitter @charlotteryland

Claire Gorrara is Professor of French at Cardiff University.

Colin H. Williams is Honorary Professor of Welsh at Cardiff University and Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, at the University of Cambridge

David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London

David Hall is Postdoctoral Research Assistant on AThEME: The Emergence of Multiethnic Varieties at Queen Mary University of London

Dr Dawn Leslie is a Lecturer in Scottish Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Her main research interests are centred on societal language attitudes regarding Scots and speakers’ perceptions of linguistic variation.

Diana Sutton is Director of The Bell Foundation, a Cambridge based Educational Trust working on language education and social exclusion.

Dina Mehmedbegovic is lecturer in Education at UCL

Dora Alexopoulou is a Principal Research Associate at DTAL, PI of the EF Research Lab for Applied Language and Learning which investigates second language learning of English and aims to bring innovation in language teaching through a systematic cross-fertilisation between linguistic research and teaching techniques.

Douglas Kibbee is Emeritus Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include language policy and language rights, the history of linguistic thought, and translation. Recent publications include Language and the Law. Linguistic Inequality in America and a critical edition of Scipion Dupleix's Liberté de la langue françoise dans sa pureté.

Elena Ioannidou is assistant professor in Language Education and Sociolinguistics at the University of Cyprus.

Emanuelle Santos is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham.

Emma Humphries is a Leverhulme Early Career Researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. There are two main strands to her research. The first focuses on language attitudes and ideologies, including her latest project: Prescriptivism in French Popular Culture. The second concerns language policy in the UK and France. [Twitter = @em_humps]

Emma Marsden is director of the NCELP and of OASIS. She is Professor of Second Language Education at the University of York and editor of the journal Language Learning.

Emmanuelle Labeau is Reader in Language in Society (formerly French Language and Linguistics) at Aston University in Birmingham. Most of her publications explore the French verbal system with a special interest in language variation change. Since her AHRC fellowship, Emmanuelle has been working on the languages of Birmingham, particularly in healthcare, and secured 'Engage for Ukraine' funding from Birmingham Voluntary Services Committee to help refugees overcome language barriers when settling in the region.

Esther Gutierrez Eugenio is the European Projects Manager at Cambridge English Language Assessment, University of Cambridge

Eva Duran Eppler is a linguist whose main interest lies in the multilingualism of minority communities which she has explored from sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and educational angels. She is Reader at the University of Roehampton and chair of the Committee for Linguistics in Education. She is currently engaged in a UKRI funded project on endangered minority languages (RISE UP).

Florence Myles is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Essex and chair of RiPL.

Florence Myles is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Essex and chair of RiPL.

Graeme Trousdale is Senior Lecturer in the department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in cognitive and historical linguistics. He is a member of the LAGB’s Education Committee and is keen to develop ways of engaging with teachers to encourage more opportunities for young people to learn about linguistics.

Hao Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Edinburgh and is an Assistant Recognition Manager at Oxford University Press. His research focuses on language education policy, specifically the 1+2 Approach in Scotland. [@ZhangHao_Edin]

Annette conducted her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Her doctoral project looked at language variation in Beijing Mandarin among local-born young adults and the relationship between language use and social meanings related to gender, class, career choices and future aspiration. She has also worked on language attitudes towards different varieties of Mandarin Chinese. Annette is a Research Associate on Strand 2 of the MEITS project, and she investigates the use of standard and vernacular varieties in China, focusing on expression of cultural, political and ideological identities in the increasingly multilingual Chinese society.

Ian Bauckham CBE is a headteacher and executive leader of a multi-academy trust in south-east England. He has spent his career in teaching after graduating in Modern Languages and currently advises both the Department for Education and Ofsted on a range of areas, including modern languages policy. He chaired the Teaching Schools Council’s enquiry into MFL in 2016 and authored the report that came out of that enquiry. He has long experience of training, support and school improvement work across the sector and has served as President of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).

Ian Collen is Lecturer in Modern Language Education at Queen’s University Belfast.

Professor Ianthi Maria Tsimpli is Chair of English and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge University

James Fenton is Lecturer in the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation at the University of Westminster.

Janice Carruthers is Professor of French Linguistics at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published widely on the French temporal system, the structure of oral narrative, variation in French, the syntax of spoken French, corpus methodology, and language policy. Her research has been funded by the AHRC and Horizon Europe.

Javier Moreno-Rivero is a researcher at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, where he teaches and examines on Language and Society and Spanish Translation. His academic interests lie in the intersections between language and the social sciences, with a particular focus on jurilinguistics, language policies and professional translation. At the moment, he serves on the editorial board of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer).

Jennifer Bruen is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and German in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University where her focus is on language for international business and study abroad. Her research is in the area of language planning and policy at national and EU level as well as in foreign language teaching and learning. She is currently involved in developing an Institution Wide Language Programme. Jennifer has published widely on these topics in many leading international publications. She is co-editor of Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics.

Jennifer Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Queen’s University Belfast and is the Programme Convenor for the PGCE English programme. Jennifer’s research focuses on literacy learning and accessible learning.

Jenny Cheshire is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London

Jenny brings to the project her research and clinical expertise in autism and developmental language disorders. As a qualified Speech and Language Therapist, working in a London Borough where over 70% of referrals involve children from bilingual/multilingual families, she has direct experience of the issues faced by speakers of community/minoritised languages who also have communication disabilities. Jenny is a steering group member of the East Anglian Regional Hub of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists which provides a valuable link for recruitment and dissemination activities. She is also an early career researcher specialising in the cognitive and social aspects of developmental disorders of language and social communication, and has received ESRC and MRC funding to investigate how pragmatic language difficulties impact on children’s relationships within their social worlds.

Jeroen Darquennes is Professor of German and general linguistics at the University of Namur, Belgium. His research focuses on language contact and language conflict in European language minority settings.

Jonathan Hancock is Research Associate at the Centre for Education for Racial Equality Scotland (CERES), University of Edinburgh.

Jonathan Kasstan is Lecturer in French and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. He specialises in language variation and change with respect to non-standard and minority language varieties, and his research interests are broadly anchored in quantitative sociolinguistics. He is principal investigator of a Leverhulme-funded project that seeks to establish universals of grammatical change in language obsolescence. Recent research articles have been published in major journals such as Language in Society.

Joseph Ford is a Lecturer in French Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Jürgen Jaspers is a researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His reseach interests are sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis, urban multilingualism and linguistic standardization.

Kamila Polišenská is Lecturer in the Division of Human Communication, Development and Hearing at the University of Manchester.

Karen Forbes is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Her current research interests are in multilingual identity, language learning strategies and school language policies.

Kate Lightfoot is a Research Fellow at Born in Bradford, working on Age of Wonder: Teenage Stories – a qualitative longitudinal project following the lives of 100 young people from early adolescence to early adulthood. Kate’s PhD focused on heritage French speakers in the UK, with a particular emphasis on how children learn their home languages, how they and their parents negotiate their bilingual identities, and the experiences of heritage French speakers and their teachers in the mainstream French classroom (@_katelightfoot)

Leanne Henderson is a Research Fellow in Language Policy on the AHRC Modern Languages Leadership Fellowship Language Policy Project ‘Foreign, indigenous and community languages in the devolved regions of the UK: policy and practice for growth’. Her research focuses on modern languages education policy and she is particularly interested in language learner perspectives at post-primary level. She is a Managing Editor of Languages, Society and Policy.

Liz Wren-Owens is Reader in Italian and Translation Studies at Cardiff University and is Vice-Chair (Research) of the University Council of Modern Languages. Her research focusses on translation and transnational Italian cultures.

Lucy Jenkins is National Coordinator for the MFL Student Mentoring Project.

Maksi Kozińska is a PhD candidate at Anglia Ruskin University, studying Polish heritage speakers in England. She has over a decade of experience teaching Polish, serves as an examiner and educator across multiple institutions, and is an external expert to Ofqual. Maksi has been honoured with the Medal of the Commission of National Education by the Minister of Education and Science of Poland for her contributions to education (@MaksiKozinska)

Marc Debono is Associate Professor in Language Sciences at the Universiy of Tours. His work articulates didactics and sociolinguistics, and focuses in particular on legal language and the relations existing between the legal and linguistic fields.

Marco Hafner is a senior economist and research leader at RAND Europe working on employment, education and social policy research.

Maria Garraffa is assistant professor in the Psychology department at Heriot-Watt University.

Maria Teresa Guasti is a professor in the Psychology department at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Maria Vender is a research fellow in Linguistics at the University of Verona.

Mark Sebba is Reader Emeritus in Sociolinguistics and Language Contact at Lancaster University. His earlier work was mostly in the area of pidgin and creole languages and in the analysis of conversational code switching in bilingual communities. Through this he became interested in the Sociolinguistics of Orthography, a relatively unexplored field which examines the cultural and social aspects of spelling and writing systems. A more recent interest is in written bilingual and multilingual texts - magazines, websites, signs and other texts which contain a mixture of languages and which cannot be analysed using the methods applied to spoken code-switching. Since 2013 he has been researching the way language questions are asked in population censuses, and has published several papers relating to the 2011 census in the United Kingdom.

Michelle Macleod is Professor of Gaelic at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests range from Gaelic theatre to language planning and policy with a specific focus on policy implementation in the community.

Since September 2021, she has been Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University. Before that, she was Senior Lecturer (2015-2017), Reader (2017-2019), and then Professor of Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, UK. She is interested in the structure of language (syntactic theory, hence the trees), how languages vary and how this variation can be modeled (typology, comparative syntax), how structure and meaning interact (syntax/semantics interface), and how linguistics fits into the discipline of modern languages (pedagogical linguistics). She has a particular interest in languages descended from Latin (Romance languages), especially Spanish and Portuguese varieties, but she is interested in language in general and has worked on many different languages, often in collaboration with other scholars.

Michelle Sheehan is Professor of Linguistics at Newcastle University. She specialises primarily in comparative syntax with a particular focus on Romance languages including standard national languages as well as heritage and minority varieties, but she has a secondary long-term interest in the status of linguistics as a discipline and how it relates to language teaching and assessment. She is currently PI of the  Linguistics in MFL project and a Leverhulme Research Grant on Romance Causation and Perception (CauRPe). (@mishee54)

Min-Chen Liu is a researcher with expertise in multilingualism and broader interests around language, motivation and identity. She specialises in large-scale quantitative and qualitative research. Until recently, she was a Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, working on several research projects, including British Academy ‘Languages Provision in UK Further Education’, and British Council ‘Language Trends Wales’.

Mélanie (mg696@cam.ac.uk) is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is co-supervised by Dr Jenny Gibson and Dr Napoleon Katsos, and funded by the ESRC-DTP Cambridge in partnership with Autistica. Her doctoral research is looking at the potential of collaborative and cross-cultural professional learning opportunities to foster inclusive healthcare services for autistic communities. Alongside her academic research, Mélanie is also involved in public engagement projects aimed at supporting children with Speech, Language and Communication disorders (RADLD) and multilingual families (CBN).

Napoleon brings to the project expertise in language acquisition research, especially in how typically- and atypically-developing children learn two languages (or two dialects) simultaneously. His current projects in this area focus on exploring bilingualism in autism and/or ADHD through clinical and sub-clinical population studies and systematic reviews. He is also studying the differences between bilingual and bi-dialectal development. A better understanding of the process of bilingualism is of paramount importance to families, professionals and the society at large. Together with colleagues in Cambridge, Napoleon co-founded the Cambridge Bilingualism Network which aims to increase awareness about the benefits and challenges of raising bilingual children by disseminating state-of-heart research findings and by fostering partnerships between researchers, teachers, clinicians and parents of bilingual children.

Nataša Pantić is a Professor in Educational Change and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh, School of Education. Much of her recent work has focused on teachers and their education as agents of change for educational inclusion and diversity. Her research in this area has informed policies and practices that had impact on addressing social challenges, such as migrant integration in schools.

Neil Kenny is Lead Fellow for Languages at the British Academy. He is also Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

Neil Mosley is Digital Learning Designer at the Centre for Education Support and Innovation at Cardiff University.

Neil Sheldon is chair of the Teaching Statistics Trust and a former vice-president of the Royal Statistical Society. He is also vice-chair of the UK Linguistics Olympiad.

Nick Avery is a resource developer at the NCELP. He holds an MA in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching from the University of York and has previously taught EFL in France, Spain and Colombia.

Nick Saville is Director of Research and Thought Leadership at Cambridge English Language Assessment, University of Cambridge

Nicola McLelland is Professor of German and History of Linguistics at the University of Nottingham. She was an AHRC Future of Languages Research Fellow in 2022 and Co-Investigator on the MEITS (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies) research project (2016-2020). Her research interests include multilingualism; language standardization, past and present; the history of language teaching and learning of German and of other languages; the history of linguistics more widely, in Europe and beyond; and languages education advocacy.

Oliver is a teacher of French, German and Arabic in London. He is Chair of the Independent Schools Modern Languages Association.

Paul Glaister is Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Reading. As well as 39 years’ teaching and leadership experience, his 444 publications span research in numerical analysis, mathematics/science education, and teaching and learning. He has taught students in HE on a wide range of applied mathematics courses for mathematics and mathematical sciences programmes, and on programmes in other disciplines, and at all levels, for 37 years. He has considerable experience of education policy and practice in the pre-HE sector, particularly post-16 Mathematics, and on the school-university transition. He has reviewed A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics as a member of ALCAB, and reviewed Core Maths qualifications for the Department for Education, and A-levels for Ofqual.

Penny Roy is Professor in the Division of Language and Communication Science at City, University of London.