Hui (Annette) Zhao

Annette conducted her PhD at Queen Mary University of London. Her doctoral project looked at language variation in Beijing Mandarin among local-born young adults and the relationship between language use and social meanings related to gender, class, career choices and future aspiration. She has also worked on language attitudes towards different varieties of Mandarin Chinese. Annette is a Research Associate on Strand 2 of the MEITS project, and she investigates the use of standard and vernacular varieties in China, focusing on expression of cultural, political and ideological identities in the increasingly multilingual Chinese society.

Nicola McLelland

Nicola is Head of the School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham. Her contribution to the MEITS project builds on her expertise on language standardization in the Germanic languages, past and present, and in the history of linguistic thought, including grammar writing, and the history of modern languages education in Europe and beyond (policy, curricula, practice). She is Lead Editor of the journal Language & History.

Leanne Henderson

Leanne Henderson is a Research Fellow in Language Policy on the AHRC Modern Languages Leadership Fellowship Language Policy Project ‘Foreign, indigenous and community languages in the devolved regions of the UK: policy and practice for growth’.  Her research focuses on modern languages education policy and she is particularly interested in language learner perspectives at post-primary level.  She is a Managing Editor of Languages, Society and Policy.