University degrees, diplomas and academic public assessments

2014 - PhD (Sociolinguistics), (In)-Between a rock and a hard place: notes for an ecology of language policies from a complementary school for Eastern European children in Portugal, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra

2006 - MA in Descriptive Linguistics (Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language), Literacy practices among children of Eastern European immigrants in Portugal, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra

1998 - Post-graduate course in English language teaching, Moscow Open State Pedagogical University

1992 - Degree in Primary and Basic Education, Moscow Lenin State Pedagogical University

Field of specialisation

Literacy practices

Sociocultural approach to multilingualism

Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language

Other fields

Contact linguistics

Language varieties and methods of linguistic description