Jye Smallwood

Jye joined the DTAL psycholinguistics lab after completing an MSc in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching at the University of Oxford. His research is motivated by his experience in teaching English as a Second Language in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Colombia, Macedonia, Poland, the US, and the UK. Jye is currently under the supervision of Dr Dora Alexopolou, who was recently appointed a Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. His doctoral project involves understanding how grammatical properties in first language impact second language acquisition.

• University of Cambridge: PhD Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2022-
• University of Oxford: MSc Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching, 2019-2021
• University of Newcastle: MA Applied Policy Research (Education), 2009-2010
• Northumbria University: BA (Hons) English, 2007-2008