OUR RESEARCH
Publications
Discover my publications that provide the foundation for my researched-informed professional consulting.
How communication barriers can have 'devastating safety consequences' in CIOB People
Dr Morwenna Fellows explains how her PhD research has uncovered the communication issues that arise on site when there is no shared first language
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Building bridges: the bilingual language work of migrant construction workers in Construction Management and Economics.
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This paper details the informal and often invisible language work that is done on diverse construction sites, constributing to best practice for working in diverse teams.
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'Trans'forming identities: migrant workers as informal interpreters in the International Journal of Multilingualism
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This paper details the different extents to which bilingual workers communicate between groups and provides an understanding about worker motivation regarding communication.​
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Migrant workers as informal interpreters on construction sites. Doctoral thesis, University of Reading, UK.
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Based on doctoral research , carried out at the University of Reading and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, this thesis answers two important questions: (1) Who are the informal interpreters and why do they perform this task? And (2) What language work do the informal interpreters do and how?