Dr. Peredur Webb-Davies undergraduate degree was in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic studies at Queens’ College, the University of Cambridge, where I specialised in medieval Welsh language and literature, and old Germanic language and literature, particularly Old English. I also completed an MPhil in this field in 2004, writing my dissertation on Old English semantics (on different words for horses!). After working briefly as a researcher in the School of Welsh at Bangor University, in 2005 I started a PhD in Linguistics at Bangor, supervised by Professor Margaret Deuchar; I graduated in 2010. The focus of my PhD research was on bilingualism and code-switching, which is the phenomenon of inserting words from one language into sentences from another language—something particularly common in informal Welsh speech. He is the member of teaching staff at the School of Linguistics and English language since 2009, initially as a Welsh-medium Teaching Fellow, then from September 2012 as a Lecturer in Welsh Linguistics, in both cases primarily funded by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, and so I am also a lecturer for the Coleg. In February 2016 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in Welsh Linguistics. Since August 2015 I have been the Head of School of Linguistics and English Language.

Research intrest was on bilingualism and code-switching, which is the phenomenon of inserting words from one language into sentences from another language—something particularly common in informal Welsh speech.