Adriana Patiño-Santos is an Associate Professor of University of Southampton at the Modern Languages and Linguistics Department. Her research interests include interactional sociolinguistics, language socialisation, conversational storytelling, and multilingualism. Her research has been focused on multilingual local practices as a lens through which to observe complex sociolinguistic situations (such as the presence of migrants of Latin American backgrounds in different sites) from a sociolinguistic perspective. She has edited recently the special issue Storytelling in globalized: a linguistic ethnographic perspective (International Journal of Sociology of Language, 2018 with Ana María Relaño Pastor).