About
Dr Nicola Bermingham is Reader in Hispanic Studies and a UKRI Policy Fellow. As a sociolinguist, she focuses on how language shapes access to equitable education, with particular expertise in the contexts of Spain and Cape Verde.
Through her UKRI Policy Fellowship, she is currently working with the UK’s What Works Network, leading research into the impact of knowledge brokering on national policy-making. She is also Principal Investigator of the British Academy-funded project Monolingual Schools in Multilingual Societies: Rethinking Language and Education in Cape Verde (2023–2025).
Dr Bermingham holds several international leadership and editorial roles, including Editor of the Linguistics Section of Modern Languages Open and Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She was previously Chair of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society (2019–2023) and is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She served as the Hispanic Studies representative for the University Council for Languages (2020–2025) and is a founding member of the Language Policy Committee of the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (CERU).
Dr Bermingham welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in sociolinguistics, language policy, multilingualism, migration, and education.