Ella van Hest is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, where she is a member of the MULTIPLES research group. She is also affiliated to the interdisciplinary Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR). Her research interests include language and migration, multilingual communication, (non-professional) interpreting, and language policy. For her PhD project she conducted a linguistic ethnography on language diversity at an abortion clinic. Previous research (MA level) focused on the effects of Flemish language and integration policy on adult newcomers.
