Current  position

• Senior Lecturer in Variationist Sociolinguistics, Newcastle University, UK

Internal roles (current)

• Head of English Language & Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK
• Steering Group member, Newcastle University Centre for Ageing and Inequalities (Education Lead)

External roles (current)

• peer review college member, ESRC (2012-) 
• editorial board member, Journal of Language and Aging Research (2022-) 
• editorial board member, Te Reo (2018-)
• Kooperationspartnerin, Research Unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations (phase 2),  funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (2021-2024)

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