About
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, during which I volunteered at the Department of Hispanic and Latin American Literature, I joined Manchester Metropolitan University as a language assistant and part-time lecturer in 1991. I combined work with study for a part-time 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 (with Spanish as a major/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 contributed to the design of the MA Translation and 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 (awarded Jan. 1992).
- Modular MA (subject: Applied Language Studies), University of Salford, 1995.
- PhD Linguistics, University of Manchester, 2002 (awarded 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.