SOPHIA BUTT (8.–9. December 2017)

Sophia Butt joined the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK in 1997 as a course writer for the distance MA in Translation Studies at the Centre for English Language Studies (now English Language & Applied Linguistics): she has been working as a Personal Tutor, Examiner & Staff Mentor on this degree programme since 2002. From 2008 to 2014, Sophia was Director of the Business Management English (BME) Presessional Programme at the UoB. She is currently a doctoral researcher, exploring the impact of counter-radicalisation discourse and its impact on the UK education sector from an interdisciplinary perspective (involving Linguistics, Social Policy and Law). In addition to the UoB, Sophia is affiliated to Aalto University in Finland (2006- ); Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (2008- ); Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan (2012- ); King’s College London (2014- ); BPP University London (2015- ); and Trinity College London (2015- ).