Current position

Profesor nadzwyczajny (full professor) and head of the Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

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Degrees

B.A. (Hons.) in French and Welsh. Cardiff University

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Upper Primary), Swansea University

M.A. in Irish Studies, Bath Spa University

PhD: “Minority languages and processes of globalisation: Linguistic hybridity in Brittany.” University of Southampton. Supervisor: Prof. Clare Mar-Molinero. Advisor: Prof. Patrick Stevenson. (2009)

DLitt ('habilitacja'): Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (2016)

Academic Teaching Experience

Visiting professor, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, 2013-2017

Adjunct in the Celtic Department, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, 2011-2013

Visiting Professor, Koszalin Polytechnic, Poland, 2009-2012

Research assistant, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (May 2008 - Sept 2009). AHRC-funded project on dialects of Scots (principal investigator: Dr. Robert McColl Millar). Lecturer on introductory course on sociolinguistics for undergraduates

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Editorial

Editor-in-chief, Studia Celtica Posnaniensia

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Editorial board member of Sociolinguistic Studies (since 2015) and of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (since 2017)

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Other professional experience

Peer reviewer for the Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development, Cambridge University Press, Language, Culture and Curriculum, International Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, Language Documentation & Conservation

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (H2020) project proposal evaluator ('expert') (2017)

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Language Vitality in Social Context workgroup member, October 2016 (Smithsonian Institution and the Grup d'Estudi de Llengues Amençades, Barcelona)

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International Symposium on Bilingualism scientific board member (2016-2017)

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Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (GBS) [Foundation for Endangered Languages] grant holder (2016)

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Short Term Scientific Missions Coordinator for COST Action IS1306 (2015-2017)

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COST Action IS1306: "New Speakers in Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges". Management Committee Member

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