Challenges and opportunities of embedding institutional research

Keynote talk for a symposium co-organised by UCL SSEES PROLang and UCL Institute of Advanced Studies on Decolonising Language Studies.

The second event in a series that responds to current calls about decolonising the curriculum by fostering a transdisciplinary dialogue across linguistics, cultural studies, social sciences and politics as well as the critical study of discourse, intercultural communication, and multilingualism. On this second symposium, and a planned conference in 2024, we continue to explore the ways in which sociolinguistic ethnographic methods and participatory research can contribute to the conceptual and institutional re-grounding of the study of language(s) in a way which pinpoints the role of language in understanding political and social professes of (in)securitisation, intercultural understanding, and social equity. By engaging in this discussion, we would like to bring the study of minoritized groups, linguistic citizenship, and transcultural becoming to the fore in language education.