Dr Catrin Wyn Edwards, a lecturer in the Department of International Politics, was awarded a grant from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol to undertake research on immigration and models of integration in Quebec and Catalonia, focussing specifically on language education policies.

Catrin spent three months (February – May) as a visiting scholar with GRITIM, an Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She then undertook research as a visiting scholar in Montreal where she was based at a research group (CREQC) in UQAM, Montreal.

Catrin’s research interests include language policy and politics, immigration policy, linguistic diversity and multiculturalism, and sub-state governance.