Jessica Bradley is lecturer in literacies in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield where she is director of the undergraduate programme in Education, Culture and Childhood and deputy director of the EdD. Her research interests cohere around people’s creative engagements in everyday life and she takes an ethnographic approach. Projects include creative arts approaches to linguistic landscapes and collaborative research into participatory arts programmes for communities emerging from COVID-19 isolation. She has published widely, including a co-edited book Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities (Multilingual Matters 2020).