Personal Statement
My work focuses on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, second language acquisition and translation and interpreting in public service settings.

After completing a five-year undergraduate degree specialising in English Philology at the University of Murcia (Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras, 1991), I worked as a language assistant and part-time lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University while studying part-time for a Modular MA at the University of Salford (translation, technical translation: legal, interpreting, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cultural theory and textual criticism). From 1995 to 1998 I coordinated the development and validation of the Spanish strand of the BA Modern Languages at the University of Bournemouth while working part-time towards a PhD Linguistics at the University of Manchester. In 1998 I moved to Northumbria University, where I was responsible for the Spanish university-wide language programmes (Spanish as a major and minor degree subject) and co-supervised the Postgraduate Programme in Hispanic Studies. I went on to teach at the University of Exeter (2009-2010) while completing an MA English Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. From 2011-2018 I worked at Lancaster University, where I led the development and validation of the Distance MA Translation before becoming Chair of the Language Committee in 2018. From January 2019 to December 2022 I was based at the University of Sussex, where I worked on the design and validation of the MA in Translation Studies and served as Director of Student Wellbeing for Year 1 and postgraduate students across the Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities. In January 2023 I joined the University of Liverpool, where I have convened thirteen teaching teams across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to date.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2314-8940

Academic qualifications:

- Licenciatura en Filosofía y Letras (Filología), Universidad de Murcia, 1991.
- Modular MA (subject: Applied Language Studies), University of Salford, 1995.
- PhD Linguistics, University of Manchester, 2003.
- MA English Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, 2010.

Other:
- Metropolitan Police Test in Spanish Translation and Interpreting, Institute of Linguists, 2008.
- PGCAP Module 2, Lancaster University, 2015.
- Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Health), Chartered Institute of Linguists, 2024.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2025.
- Diploma in Public Service Interpreting (Law), Chartered Institute of Linguists, 2026.

Research Overview
Interactional linguistics and attitudes to stigmatised language varieties in English and Spanish. Collecting data about the Murcian Spanish accent since 1991 (with questionnaires in 1991, 2005, 2011 and online in 2023). Translation and interpreting in public service settings, particularly in health and legal contexts. Second language acquisition.

In 2023 I submitted two applications to the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme. On both occasions I was informed that my project passed all quality threshold criteria and was deemed worth of funding (around £8,000) but was not selected in the randomisation process.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2314-8940