Professor Marilyn Martin-Jones

• Ph.D. Linguistics (Stanford, Ca. USA)
• MA Linguistics (Stanford, Ca. USA)
• PGCE, with distinction (London, Institute of Education) 
• BA Hons in French (Southampton)

From 2005-2010 Marilyn Martin-Jones contributed to teaching, at undergraduate, masters and doctoral level, in the following areas: research methodology in Applied Linguistics, language discourse and society, ethnography of literacy and multilingualism, language and gender.

She is continuing as supervisor of doctoral research in the following areas: bilingual education (including language across the curriculum); language, faith and education; language teaching and learning (including culture in the language classroom and emotions in language learning); language practices in vocational education classes; literacy (including adult literacy and young people’s literacy practices). Marilyn Martin-Jones has already supervised 28 doctoral researchers to successful completion of their Ph.D. programmes. In June 2010, she received a university award in Excellence in Doctoral Supervision.

Marilyn Martin-Jones’ research and publications have been in the following areas: the use of multilingual resources in classroom interaction, bilingual education, language policy, the ethnography of literacy (including print and screen literacy), multilingual literacy (see her list of publications below).

Latest research

The changing language and literacy landscapes of Brazilian universities: English in policy development and in practice (2018 - 2019)

This ethnographic project investigated the specific ways in which university policy-making with regard to “internationalisation at home” unfolds in two universities in Brazil, and the specific ways in which the use and production of texts in English, online and offline, is mediating this process, in different areas of academic life: research, teaching/learning (in different disciplines), and administration. 

Research grants

Marilyn Martin-Jones has been principal investigator on four ESRC-funded research projects:

• Bilingual literacies for learning in Further Education (2008, RES-139-25-0171);
• Literacies at work in a multilingual city (1996, R000221534), rated “Outstanding” ;
• Multilingual literacy practices: home, community and school (1995, R000233833);
• Bilingual resources in primary classroom interaction (1992, X204252001).

She was also co-investigator on two other projects:

• Researching multilingualism, multilingualism in research practice (RES-046-25-0004), funded under the ESRC’s Researcher Development Initiative, 2010-2013 (Dr Deirdre Martin was PI).
• Investigating discourses of inheritance and identity in four multilingual European settings, 2010-2012 (09-HERA-JRP-CD-FP-051) funded as a Collaborative Research Project, under the Joint Research Programme: Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

She was Director of the MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, School of Education from 2007-2010 and Chair of the Doctoral Research Board, College of Social Sciences from 2009-2010. 

Marilyn Martin-Jones has held the following professional appointments:

• 2005 to 2010: Member of the ESRC’s Research Training and Development Board
• 2002 to 2004: Member of the Executive Committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics

Visiting professorships

November 2014: Faculty Visitor, School of Education, University of Hong Kong

September – December 2013:  Visiting Professor, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväkylä, Finland

May and June 2006: Visiting Professor, Babylon Centre, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

September 2002-July 2003: Visiting Professor and Director of Research, Rinkeby Institute for Multilingual Research, City of Stockholm and Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden. 

September - December 1997: Visiting Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education (Educational Linguistics Program), University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 

April 1989, April 1993, April 1995:  Three visits to the University of Brasilia and the University of São Paulo at Campinas, Brazil to present papers at local conferences and participate in seminars on bilingualism, on literacy and on research methods. The visits were funded by the British Council and by (CAPES), a Brazilian research foundation.