My research involves exploring language learning, identity and integration amongst adult migrant and refugee learners of English in the UK. I seek to better understand how language learning and integration inter-relate, and the barriers and facilitators to both these processes. I am particularly interested in migrant and refugee English language learners’ perspectives of what successful integration might look like for them; as well as political discourse and policy on English language and integration. I am also interested in how identity negotiation, identity positions and agency interact with the processes of language learning and integration.

My research includes exploring the use of participatory tools for researching with ‘non-proficient’ speakers of English, as well as combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.