Dr Frances Giampapa

Research summary

Dr. Frances Giampapa is one of the Co-Directors of the Centre for Research on Globalisation, Education and Societies and she is one of the co-ordinators of an Applied Linguistic Network  - Linguistnet (www.facebook.com/linguistnet.bristol).  She is currently the Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc TESOL programme.

Her research interests continue to focus on the migration, language and identities nexus across multilingual contexts. This includes research on:

Productive Margins: Regulation for Engagement http://www.bristol.ac.uk/public-engagement/events/margins/

Negotiating Multilingual Identities in Migrant Professional Contexts http://www.wun.ac.uk/resources

Skilled Migration and Global English: Language, Development ...

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Biography

Dr. Frances Giampapa is a Lecturer in Education (TESOL/Applied Linguistics), specialising in Critical - Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics. She graduated from the University of Western Australia with a B.A. Honours in Linguistics, and a Masters in Italian Linguistics for which she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Research Award & the M.A.K. Halliday scholarship in Applied Linguistics. She then studied Second Language Education/Applied Linguistics at OISE/University of Toronto, winning an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her doctoral research on Italian Canadian youth and the negotiation of identities: The discourse of Italianità,language and the spaces of identity ...

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Selected publications

• Giampapa, F 2012, ‘Authenticity, legitimacy and power: Critical ethnography and identity politics’. in: SF Gardner, M Martin-Jones (eds) Multilingualism, discourse and ethnography. Routledge, pp. 95 - 110
• Giampapa, F 2011, ‘The politics of 'being and becoming' a researcher: Identity, power and negotiating the field’. Journal of Language, Identity and Education, vol 10(3)., pp. 132 - 144

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