Vasiliki Vita

Vasiliki Vita is a sociolinguist whose work explores language revitalisation and linguistic diversity through collaborative, community-engaged research. Her projects focus on how endangered and minoritised language communities negotiate identity, mobility, and education in postcolonial contexts. 

Her doctoral research, Testing TESL Methods for Teaching and Learning Sonsorolese: Documentation with Maintenance in Mind and funded by the Onassis Foundation and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, examines how linguistic documentation can inform pedagogy and policy for the endangered Sonsorolese language in the Republic of Palau. Vasiliki has also co-led an interdisciplinary documentation project with the Vanuma language spoken in Bundibugyo, Uganda, supported by the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the Philological Society. 

Her broader research includes contributions to the virALLanguages global COVID-19 health communication initiative and the Michif Talking Dictionary with Métis communities in Canada. She has published on grassroots language policy, migration and linguistic inequality, and collaborative corpus building, and co-edited SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics (Vol. 21). 

Beyond research, Vasiliki has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring in higher education, currently serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at SOAS and Micro-internship Experience Officer with Learning Connected Ltd. Her teaching spans sociolinguistics, multilingualism, and language policy, underpinned by critical and decolonial pedagogies. Vasiliki is a member of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, the Philological Society, and the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services. Her work combines linguistic theory, ethnography, and public engagement to promote linguistic and educational equity within and beyond academia.

• Multilingualism
• Sociolinguistics
• Language policy and planning
• Endangered language revitalisation
• Language documentation