Jaine Beswick

Dr. Jaine Beswick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics and sociophonetics, particularly in diasporic and multilingual contexts such as island communities and borderlands. She explores language use, identity, and belonging among migrants, with a focus on Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, and English.

Education: BA Hons in Spanish, Portuguese, and French with Linguistics; MA in Language and Linguistics; PG Diploma in International Relations (Rio de Janeiro); PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Bristol.

Current roles include Departmental UG Senior Tutor, member of the Faculty Concordat Wellbeing and Family Policy working group, and the Faculty EDI Network. She leads the Future of Human Communication (FHC) Centre of Excellence in FEPS.

Research projects include a longitudinal study on economic migration to Jersey and examinations of style-shifting in multilingual encounters. Awards include the Academic Award for Best Response to Feedback (2009).

Supervision: Currently advising four PhD students in Applied Linguistics/ELT. Active in teaching sociophonetics, sociolinguistic theory, and language variation.

Grants: Received funding from the Societe Jersiaise and Lord Countanche Library for research on migration in Jersey.