Adrian BlackledgeAdrian Blackledge is Professor of Applied Linguistics at University of Warwick, U.K. He conducts ethnographic research in the field of language in society, with a particular focus of multilingualism and translanguaging. He is developing creative appraches to the representation of research outcomes. He is author or editor of 14 books, the latest of these is Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters (2013, Multilingual Matters), with Angela Creese. His current research project is “Strategies to strengthen European linguistic capital in a globalised world” (MultiLX, 2025-2027). He was Poet Laureate for the city of Birmingham, 2014-2016 Read More Read Less