I have been Professor of Modern English Linguistics at the University of Bern since 2010. My research interests embrace language variation and change, varieties of English (especially in Southern and Eastern England, the Southern Hemisphere, especially New Zealand, Australia and the Falkland Islands, and the Pacific, especially Micronesia), dialect contact and attrition, new dialect formation, second dialect acquisition, and the use of new technologies, such as smartphone applications, in collecting dialect data. I am also actively engaged in research at the dialectology-human geography interface, especially with respect to space/place, urban/rural and the role of mobilities.