Swansea University

Department Member, College of Arts and Humanities

Honorary Research Fellow

Thesis Title: Reversing Babel - Declining linguistic diversity and the flawed attempts to protect it

About

I gained my PhD in 2009 from the University of Essex (sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council). Afterwards I worked as a Research Manager for a charity in south Wales, and I now work in Bristol as a freelance research advisor, trainer, copywriter and copy-editor - with an eye towards academic employment at some point in the future. I still spend time writing academic articles for publication, and presenting ideas at conferences whenever possible. I also give occasional guest lectures and invited seminars. Details of all these are available in the 'Talks' section of this page.

My current academic affiliation is an Honorary Research Fellowship in the College of Arts & Humanities, Swansea University. I'm also a member of the university's interdisciplinary Language Research Centre.

Elsewhere I sit on the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Peer Review College, I'm an Associate of the UK Higher Education Academy, and a member of the International Panel of Experts at the Kazakh National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation.

Although the Fellowship at Swansea is a formal affiliation, it doesn't carry a time commitment so I'm seldom at the campus itself. Still, I'm happy to correspond by email, and meet up whenever possible. I live in Bristol, and travel often. If anything here interests you, please do get in touch via 'd.sayers' followed by '@swansea.ac.uk'. I'm always happy to bat ideas around.