My name's Bethan Tovey-Walsh,
and I'm a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Welsh at Swansea University. The wonderful Tess Fitzpatrick and the fabulous Rhys Jones are supervising my research, which focuses on code-switching and lexical borrowing in Welsh-English bilinguals. My PhD is funded by the CorCenCC modern Welsh corpus project.
When I'm not PhDing, I'm a markup-languages geek. I was a founding member of the Markup UK board, and I introduced the corpus of cryptic crosswords I'm building at the inaugural conference in 2018. I'm also a trained ESOL teacher. In a past life, I completed a DPhil in Anglo-Saxon literature, supervised by Malcolm Godden at Oxford, and then went to work for the Oxford English Dictionary.
When my brain needs a break I love various kinds of textile crafts, including weaving and embroidery. I watch sci-fi on TV while I'm crafting, so most of what I make has memories of Bajorans, Battlestars, and baby porgs embedded in it.
I live in Swansea, in southern Wales, with my husband - a recovering Texan who's learning Welsh.
You can contact me on email. If you're feeling businesslike, you could look at my LinkedIn page.