We are happy to announce that on 30 October 2026 LVTC member Laura Abalo Dieste successfully defended her PhD entitled "The linguistic proxying of colloquialisation and register levelling in contemporary English", supervised by Yolanda Fernández-Pena (UVigo, LVTC) and Javier Pérez-Guerra (UVigo, LVTC). Laura obtained the highest qualification. Special gratitude is owed to the examiners Gunther Kaltenböck (Graz), Victorina González-Díaz (Liverpool) and Lucía Loreiro-Porto (Balearic Island).
