Professor Tim Pooley

Qualifications

BA French with German (University College London)
MA Linguistics and English Language Teaching (University of Leeds)
PhD Linguistics, Title of Thesis: Grammatical and Phonological Variation in the Working-Class French of Roubaix (University College London)

Role

Professor of Social and Applied Language Studies

Tim’s teaching interests are language and linguistics. He is Editor of on-line publications for the Centre for Transcultural Research and is currently working on developing professional doctorates with the department of Humanities, Arts and Languages (HAL).

His main areas of interest are: sociolinguistics, especially variation and change in the pronunciation and grammar of European varieties of French and immigration and minority languages in francophone Europe.

His research has been largely concerned with sociolinguistic variation and change, particularly with regard to pronunciation in European varieties of French, particularly in Lille and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

The study of regionally marked pronunciation has triggered a keen interest in so-called traditional dialects and minority languages (especially Picard and Basque) and the effects of immigration (both historical and contemporary) on vernacular varieties of French.

He is a member as a committee member and research committee member of the Association for French Language Studies. He is editor of the on-line journal Cahiers of the Association for French Language Studies.

He has recently served as external examiner at the universities of Leeds and St. Andrew’s.