James Hawkey is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Linguistics at the University of Bristol, UK. His research focuses on issues in contemporary Catalan sociolinguistics, and his specific interests are in language variation and change, language policy and language attitudes. His work has appeared in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language Policy and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, among other publications. His recent monograph is Language Attitudes and Minority Rights: The Case of Catalan in France (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)