Dr Birgul Yilmaz is a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Exeter in the UK. She is a critical sociolinguist, applied linguist and ethnographer, specialising in language and forced migration. Her research interests are: 1) Sociolinguistics of forced migration and humanitarianism 2) Heritage language learning and teaching: identity, conflict and diaspora communities 3) Critical sociolinguistics, ethnography and linguistic practice 4) Language, vulnerability and trauma in humanitarian settings https://lcvs.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/people/profile/index.php?web_id=yilmaz