Mabel Victoria
Mabel Victoria

Dr Mabel Victoria

Lecturer

 0131 455 4722

  M.Victoria@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am an applied sociolinguist with research interests in intercultural communication, English as a lingua franca, linguistic politeness, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and linguistic landscapes. I teach Intercultural Business Communication, Exploring Culture and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. I have a PhD in Intercultural Communication and Applied Sociolinguistics, MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and MRes in Education. I am interested in applying insights from linguistic ethnography in the analysis of spoken discourse. My most recent publications include: Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally (2022, Editor, Cambridge Scholars), Interculturality and the English Language Classroom (2021, Co-editor, Palgrave), "Penitensiya" as Religious-Dark Tourism in Tourist Studies Journal (2021).

School

Events

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Co-organiser: Future Visualities: Visual Methods & Ethnography
  • Co-organiser Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 2
  • Project Lead: Visual Methods and Ethnography Seminar Series 1
  • Arts and Intercultural Understanding
  • Transculturing in the Third Space Using English as a Lingua Franca
  • Transculturing in the Third Space through Language
  • Transforming Borders into Bridges: Communication Strategies and Resources for Building Relations across Cultures
  • The selfie project: learning/teaching English in an innovative way
  • Using the liminal spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical resource Teaching Fellowship Conference
  • How Immigrants in an Employment-focused Program 鈥榙o鈥 Solidarity and Empathy

 

Editorial Activity

  • Managing Editor
  • Book Review Editor

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Advisor
  • PhD External Examiner
  • External Examiner
  • PhD External Examiner
  • External Examiner

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Recipient of Language Acts and Worldmaking 'Small Grant' Award
  • Recipient of British Council and Newton 'Research Links' Award
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Recipient of British Council and Newton Researcher Links

 

Invited Speaker

  • Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Competence
  • Intercultural Border Crossings
  • Research Writing for Researchers
  • Navigating Intercultural Border Crossings through Language
  • The Language of Friendship and Solidarity in Intercultural Encounters
  • How Canadian Immigrants from different Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds Manage Interaction Successfully
  • Applied Linguistics according to Kermit, the Frog

 

Media Activity

  • The Art of Latrinalia

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Enhancing Intercultural Understanding and Inclusion Using Visual Methods

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • PhD Internal Examiner

 

Reviewing

  • Journal Reviewer
  • Peer Reviewer for the Asian EFL Journal
  • Peer Reviewer

 

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A view from the street: Children鈥檚 visual expressions of tourism imaginaries

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., Victoria, M., & Bowdidge, M. (2025, June)
A view from the street: Children鈥檚 visual expressions of tourism imaginaries. Presented at ATLAS Annual Conference 2025, Catalonia, Spain

Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event

Book Chapter
Victoria, M., & Wight, C. (in press)
Navigating Culture, Religion and Controversy: The Penitensya Rituals in the Philippines as a Dark Event. In The Routledge Handbook of Dark Events: Celebrations, Heritage, and Customs of Death and the Macabre. Routledge
This paper navigates the complex interplay between cultural tradition and controversy through an in-depth exploration of Penitensya, a Filipino Lenten ritual known for its vio...

Flush with Feeling: What Toilet Graffiti Says about Gender and Community

Exhibition / Performance
Victoria, M. (2025)
Flush with Feeling: What Toilet Graffiti Says about Gender and Community. 12 March 2025 - 12 March 2025. (Unpublished

Constructing Childhood Tourism: Critical Literacy and Cultural Awareness through Picture Books

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2025, February)
Constructing Childhood Tourism: Critical Literacy and Cultural Awareness through Picture Books. Presented at Centre for Higher Education Research, Online
This exploratory research examines how picture books depict travel and cultural exploration, highlighting the simplified and sometimes stereotypical portrayals of people and p...

Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O鈥機ain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1鈥249 pp., 拢125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2025)
Multimodal communication in intercultural interaction: edited by Ulrike Schroeder, Elisabetta Adami and Jennifer Dailey-O鈥機ain, New York, Routledge, 2023, 1鈥249 pp., 拢125.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032130170. Language and Intercultural Communication, 25(2), 306-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2464477
[Book review.]

English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context

Journal Article
Victoria, M., Xu, F. H., & Pilcher, N. (2025)
English as a Lingua Franca: Intercultural Interaction in an Asian 'Third Space' Context. Asian Englishes, 27(1), 159-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2024.2405278
In many studies on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), the prevailing perspective has primarily focused on ELF as the use of English for communication among speakers who do not ...

鈥淭his Wall Does More for Mental Health than the Uni Does鈥: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students

Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2025)
鈥淭his Wall Does More for Mental Health than the Uni Does鈥: Theorising Toilet Graffiti as Safe House for Students. Innovative Higher Education, 50(1), 27-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-024-09712-w
Despite sometimes being considered unworthy of scholarly attention, the study of toilet graffiti, also known as latrinalia, has nevertheless garnered increasing interest among...

Independent Learning Materials: Guided Learning Resource for Upskilling Project

Other
Victoria, M. Independent Learning Materials: Guided Learning Resource for Upskilling Project

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Victoria, M. Independent Learning Materials: Guided Learning Resource for Upskilling Project
The Independent Learning Materials Handbook was used in the TBS-EQUATE Upskilling project delivered in the summer of 2024.

Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis

Presentation / Conference
Victoria, M. (2023, December)
Affect and materiality of Graffiti in times of crisis. Paper presented at Rethinking intercultural communication beyond verbal language, Nicosia, Cyprus
The impetus for this visual-based presentation comes from serendipitous encounters with certain types of graffiti in Edinburgh during the covid-19 lockdown. As a fl芒neuse (El...

Research and Teaching Integration

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M. (2023, October)
Research and Teaching Integration. Presented at Learning and Teaching ENssentials, 麻豆社区

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • PhD project funded by The Open University
  • Power and Politeness in Philippine Higher Education Classrooms
  • An Investigation into Communication Strategies by English as a Lingua Franca Speakers

Current Post Grad projects