PLENARY SPEAKERS

Adrian Holliday
Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)
Areas of interest: Intercultural communication & ideology, discourses of culture, the politics of ELT, English in the world, cultural imperialism, qualitative research methods
For more information, visit http://adrianholliday.com/

Fernando Ramallo
Professor of Linguistics at the University of Vigo (Galicia, Spain)
Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics, Language Policy, Discourse Analysis and Methods of Linguistic Research.
For more information, visit http://uvigo.academia.edu/fernandoramallo

Jackie Leach Scully
Professor of Social Ethics & Bioethics at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
For more information, visit http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/people/profile/jackie.scully.

Lia Pappámikail
Sociologist, took her degree at ISCTE-IUL and finished her PHD in Social Sciences at the Insitute of Social Sciences of the Univesity of Lisbon in 2010 with a thesis on Youth, Family and Autonomy. She is a member of the Permament Observatory of Youth, where she devellops research on topics like youth, family and education. Since 2010 she teaches at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém and at the Superior School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon. She has several national and international publications. In 2013 she published the book Adolescência e Autonomia, negociações familiares e construção de si (Adolescense and Autonomy: family negotiations and the building of the self).