The Centre for Transnational Studies
The Centre for Transnational Studies

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

External members

In addition to the University of Southampton academics listed on this page, our membership includes:

Professor Adriana Patino

Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistic ethnography
  • Language socialisation
  • Narrative inquiry

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Adriana

Email: A.Patino@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2208

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Ms Amna Smith

Research interests

  • ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) provision for Asylum Seekers and Refugees livi…
  • Educational barriers encountered by marginalised groups.
  • ESOL learning and English language teaching policy in the UK.
Connect with Amna

Email: A.B.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Aude Campmas

Lecturer in French Studies

Research interests

  • Representations of childfree women
  • Trauma and discrimination
  • Trauma and memory

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Aude

Email: A.Campmas@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9407

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Dr Bindi Shah PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • A key question that Bindi is interested in asking is: What shapes citizenship and a sense of …
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdiscipli…

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Bindi

Email: B.Shah@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3563

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Professor Clare Mar-Molinero

Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics

Research interests

  • Spanish sociolinguistics (global Spanish, Spain, Mexico, US Latinx)
  • Language policy, ideologies and practices
  • Language and migration

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Clare

Email: F.C.Mar-Molinero@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3298

Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt…
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with David

Email: dowen@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4743

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Dr Dimitra Gkitsa

Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leader

Research interests

  • Curatorial practice and discourse
  • Arts infrastructure & organisations 
  • Cultural work & the creative industry

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Dimitra

Email: D.Gkitsa@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Heidi Armbruster

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The anthropology of migration and borders
  • Race and diversity in rural and provincial spaces;
  • critical whiteness;
Connect with Heidi

Email: H.Armbruster@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2210

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Dr Jaine Beswick

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics/sociophonetics of Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and English
  • Socio-psychological/geolinguistic spaces: borders, borderlands, diaspora, islands
  • Migrant identities: authenticity, belonging, in groups/out groups
Connect with Jaine

Email: J.Beswick@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3247

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Dr Jane Lavery

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mexican Day of the Dead, Covid-19 and diaspora.
  • Latin(a) multimedia women writers and artists (i.e writers and artists whose works straddle m…
  • Latin(a) American Women writers and artists

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jane

Email: J.E.Lavery@soton.ac.uk