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 ºÚÁÏÉç academics listed on this page, our membership includes:

  • (advisory committee member)
  • (advisory committee member)
  • Shelia Liu
  • Stash Kozlowski

Dr Adriana Patino

Associate 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

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

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 belonging to the nation amongst immigrants and established ethnic minority communities?
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdisciplinary solutions to climate crisis and biodiversity loss for marginalised communities.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Bindi

Email: B.Shah@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3563

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 School.
  • 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

Dr Dimitra Gkitsa

Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leader

Research interests

  • Curatorial practices and discourse
  • Collective and cultural memory 
  • Arts infrastructure in spaces of tranisition and difficult pasts

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Dimitra

Email: D.Gkitsa@soton.ac.uk

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

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

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 multiple disciplines (literature, art performance, photography, video, art installation, cyberspace).
  • Latin(a) American Women writers and artists

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jane

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

Dr Jen Dickinson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • > models of diaspora mobilisation and governance, including policy at the national and international levels, the role of diaspora civil society and civil society, diplomacy & geopolitics
  • > the impacts of diaspora economic and political mobilisation in origin countries, particularly on inequality, cultural heritage landscapes & tourism development

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jen

Email: J.Dickinson@southampton.ac.uk