Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: IDENTICAT Language, Culture and Identity in the Global World

Email: jpujolar@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Lancaster University with the thesis The identities of "la penya": voices and struggles of young working-class people in Barcelona. 1995. Supervised by Dr. Marilyn Martin-Jones.

Joan Pujolar (Olot, 1964) holds a degree in Anglo-Germanic Philology (1987) and Catalan Philology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1988), a Master of Arts, MA (1991), and a PhD (University of Lancaster, 1995). He is a Professor of Sociolinguistics and teaches in the Bachelor's degree in Catalan Language and Literature and the Master's in Humanities. He has been President of the Catalan Society of Sociolinguistics (2013-2019) and Vice President of the COST Network on New Speakers in Multilingual Europe (2013-2017). His research focuses on how language use is embedded in the construction of identities and its implications for accessing symbolic and economic resources. He has conducted research on the use of Catalan among young people, immigrants, and the economic sector, especially in the context of tourism and heritage, as well as multilingualism and gender.