Adrian Blackledge conducts research in the fields of linguistic ethnography, translanguaging, language ideologies, language and politics and artistic research. He is interested in developing methodologies which convey and communicate practice which is articulated in aesthetic experiences, enacted in creative outputs and embodied in artistic products.

Adrian Blackledge is Professor of Applied Linguistics. He conducts ethnographic research in the field of language in society, with a particular focus on linguistic diversity and translanguaging. He is developing creative approaches to the representation of research outcomes. He is author or editor of 14 books about his research. The latest of these is Essays in Linguistic Ethnography: Ethics, Aesthetics, Encounters (2023, Multilingual Matters), with Angela Creese. His current research project is Strategies to strengthen European linguistic capital in a globalised world (MultiLX, 2025-2027). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, City University New York. He was formerly Poet Laureate for the city of Birmingham, U.K.