Meet The Team

Caterina Guardamagna

Caterina Guardamagna is a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Liverpool. With a background in corpus-based historical cognitive linguistics, she has recently broadened her interests into narratives of migration, with a focus on European migrants in the UK, especially highly skilled migrants. She has led the Brain Drain research group since 2021. She is also currently working on the sociolinguistics of Latin in England.

Email: C.Guardamagna@liverpool.ac.uk
Website: www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/staff/caterina-guardamagna

Jessica Hampton

Jessica Hampton is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool working on the Borderscapes project. As well as researching language attitudes in Emilian and other Gallo-Italic varieties of Northern Italy, she is also very interested in Ecological Linguistics and acts as the UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group Representative for Linguistics. Jessica’s involvement with the Brain Drain project included collecting, transcribing and analysing interview data and collecting a corpus of narratives of migration from the Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Mariana Roccia

Mariana Roccia is research impact consultant for the Culture, Continuity and Transformation Research Priority Area at University of Gloucestershire. She is book series co-editor of Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics, co-convenor of the International Ecolinguistics Association, and a qualified English- Spanish translator. Mariana been involved in the Brain Drain Project since 2021, and with her experience in discourse analysis, and qualitative methods she has been responsible for collecting, managing, and analysing English and Spanish data. Aside from migration studies and discourse, other areas of interest include the environmental humanities and its articulation to other disciplines, such as literary studies, religious studies, and sociolinguistics. Mariana is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL), Member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and Committee Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting’s Western Regional Group.

Email: mroccia@glos.ac.uk
Website: www.mrlanguageservices.com

Djordje Sredanovic

Djordje Sredanovic is a sociologist specialising in the study of citizenship and migration. He is currently a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester and a collaborateur scientifique at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration & Equality of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has published extensively on migration and citizenship, including several articles from his research project on Brexit and the uses of citizenship in the UK and Belgium. Djordje has collaborated with the Brain Drain research group since 2022, sharing data and contributing to the analysis through a sociological lens. 

Email: d.sredanovic@chester.ac.uk
Website: www1.chester.ac.uk/departments/social-and-political-science/staff/djordje-sredanovic