Interview with Malwina Gudowska - Ep. 87

PhD Talk

In this week's episode, we interview Malwina Gudowska. Malwina is a Polish-Canadian writer and linguist based in London, UK. Her academic background includes a BA in International Relations, a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and the Columbia Publishing Course. In 2018, she completed an MA in Linguistics at University College London and is now pursuing a PhD in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on the emotionality and emotional communication of mothers raising multilingual children.
We talk about her career path, and how she moved from journalism to linguistics, and how this change was intertwined with her parenting journey. We also learn more about how she combines her work as a journalist and her part-time PhD studies, while also parenting. We dive deeper into multilingual parenting, and our own experiences with this topic, as well as the institutional and emotional support Malwina observed (or not) when her children were born.
References

• Malwina's website
• Malwina's instagram
• Malwina on LinkedIn
• Malwina on Twitter
• Birkbeck, University of London
• One parent one language
• A Mother's tongue: The complexity of raising multilingual children