Dr. Iker Erdocia Iniguez

Iker Erdocia is Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS). He previously served as Director of Research and Director of the PhD Programme in SALIS. He currently acts as Research Integrity Advocator of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Before joining Dublin City University, he held the position of Invited Lecturer at Université de Montréal (2013-2016).

Iker is a Funded Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology. He is also a member of the Institute for Future Media Democracy and Society (FuJo), the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies and the Applied Linguistics Research Group in DCU. He has served as President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics and executive committee member of the Language Policy group, British Association for Applied Linguistics. Iker has also been involved in public engagement activities as Chair of the Board of Directors of the NGO New Communities Partnership (NCP).

Iker's research has been published in high-ranking journals within the fields of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, including Language Policy (2018), Current Issues in Language Planning (2019 & 2021), Language Problems and Language Planning (2020), Linguistics and Education (2020), Journal of Sociolinguistics (2022 & 2024), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2022), Journal of Language and Politics (2022), Multilingua, Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication (2023), Higher Education (2024), The Language Learning Journal (2024), Language, Culture and Society (2024), Language and Communication (2025), Language in Society (2025), Language and Intercultural Communication (2025), Linguistics Vanguard (2026), The British Journal of Politics and International Relations inguistics Vanguard  Linguistics Vanguard (2026) and Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes (2026), among others. Iker has also published a book (2018) on language teacher education. This investigation was awarded the ASELE (Association of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language) prize for the best PhD in 2017. He is currently co-editing two Special Issues on AI and Linguistics and AI and Sociolinguistics research in Linguistics Vanguard and Language Science, respectively.

 

Iker's research projects have been funded by EU's Horizon Europe, the Irish Research Council (2022 & 2024), Royal Irish Academy/British Academy, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, DCU Research Initiative Scheme, and DCU Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS Fellowship). He is currently involved in the Horizon Europe FOSTERLANG research project, which aims to have a transformative effect on how minoritised languages are protected, used and promoted in Europe. Iker is leading the Work Package ‘Counteracting digital exclusion: IT tools and resources for lesser used languages’. He is also co-PI for UK AHRC-funded TransCoLL project (Transforming Cultures of Language-Learning) in the Celtic jurisdictions of Britain and Ireland. His previous Research Ireland-funded projects include the role of language in the political participation of people of migrant background in Ireland and disinformation from multilingual and minority language perspectives.