Staff Profiles

Module Coordinator for:

• U61003 Culture Language and Society
• U63536 Spanish B2(1)
• U63537 Spanish B2(2)
• U63580 Spanish 6
• U63582 Spanish C1(1)
• U63585 Spanish C1(2)
• P61009 Globalisation in the 21st Century

Modules taught

 Undergraduate

• U61003 Culture Language and Society

• U61020 Business Environment in Europe

• U61023 Independent Study in Applied Languages

• U63580 Spanish 6

• U63582 Spanish C1(1)

• U63585 Spanish C1(2)

Postgraduate

• P61009 Globalisation in the 21st Century

• P61004 EU Institutions and Policies

 Areas of interest

• Migration and diasporas

• Latin America and the Middle East

• Student experience

My research interests focus on migration, identity and diasporas: the way communities perform, produce and reproduce belonging, and the spaces they create and recreate. My main areas of study cover the politics, history and society of Latin America and the Middle East, and the human and institutional links between the two regions. In addition, I am interested in the experiences and sense of belonging of students during and after their year abroad, including issues around identity and integration.

My PhD thesis research focused on the active Colombian-Lebanese community in Bogota, focusing on their identity and the importance of social class and religion for their belonging. It followed an ethnographic approach researching the community’s organisations and the divisions that social class and religion caused within it. 

Research group membership