Contact: albert.branchadell@uab.cat
He holds a doctorate in Catalan Linguistics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and in Political Sciences from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Pompeu Fabra University), where he completed the doctoral program in Political and Social Theory.
He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Catalan Studies at UAB and teaches sociolinguistics within the Catalan Studies (Literary and Linguistic Studies) degree. He also collaborates with the university master’s degree in Conference Interpretation (MUIC) of the Faculty of Translation and Interpretation, of which he was dean between 2016 and 2022, as well as with the doctoral program in Translation and Intercultural Studies of the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies.
He has done research in theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies and political philosophy applied to language policy, especially in connection to regional or minority languages. He is a member of the Societat Catalana de Sociolingüística (SOCS), a branch of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Catalan Academy of Sciences), and is currently the member in respect of Spain of the Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.