Gabriela Bulla is a post-doctoral researcher at King's College London and the University of Barcelona. She is also Professor of Applied Linguistics and Portuguese as an Additional Language (PAL) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) since 2012. She is the coordinator of the research group Technologies, Interdisciplinarity and Multiliteracy in Education (Tecnologias, Interdisciplinaridade e Multiletramentos na Educação).

From 2012 to 2019 she was director and pedagogic coordinator at the Portuguese for Foreigners Program (Programa de Português para Estrangeiros - PPE) at UFRGS. She is the coordinator and one of the creators of the online PAL course for exchange students (CEPI) since 2007. She is a member of UNHCR's Cátedra Sérgio Vieira de Mello at UFRGS, and coordinator of the sociolinguistic and academic integration of undergraduate refugees at UFRGS during their first year (2018 and 2019).

Gabriela's research interests include teaching and learning PAL face to face and online, task and course design, project-based education, teacher education, interaction (face to face and online), collaboration and migration and education.

Gabriela's thesis title is: Educational linguistic policies and practices for the integration of migrants in Brazilian schools.

This research aims at exploring educational linguistic policies and practices related to the integration of migrants in schools, considering especially students who are not proficient in the school’s official and preferred languages. It is a three year research project that includes one year in Europe (at King's College London and the University of Barcelona), developing a critical overview of educational language policies and practices related to the integration of migrants in European schools, and two years of a collaborative ethnographic research on a public school in Brazil.

Principal supervisor: Ben Rampton