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Kate Torkington. Concluiu o PhD in Applied Linguistics em 2011 pela Lancaster University, UK; MA in Applied Linguistics em 1998 pela Cardiff University e Bachelor (BA Hons) in French Literature and Language em 1985 pela University of Sheffield. É Professor Adjunto na Universidade do Algarve e Co-Editora da revista científica Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal. É investigadora integrada e membro da Comissão Coordenadora do CiTUR - Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo (polo CiTUR Algarve). Publicou vários artigos em revistas especializadas e capítulos de livros. Participou na organização de vários eventos científicos. Coorientou 1 tese de doutoramento. Participa atualmente em 2 projetos. No seu currículo Ciência Vitae os termos mais frequentes na contextualização da produção científica são: Multi-modal discourse analysis; Lifestyle migration; Algarve; Place-identity; Place branding; Glocalization; Tourism; Ensino de línguas estrangeiras; Turismo; Linguistic landscape; Lifestyle migrants; CDA; Positioning analysis; Media; National identity; Critical discourse analysis; Politics of place; Discourse analysis.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Kate Torkington

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
661E-B095-CCD1
ORCID iD
0000-0001-9729-7872

Email addresses

  • ktorking@ualg.pt (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
German Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2011
Concluded
 PhD in Applied Linguistics (Doctor of Philosophy)
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
"The discursive construction of place-identity: British lifestyle migrants in the Algarve" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 n/a
2005
Concluded
 Linguistica Aplicada (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Reconhecimento do grau de mestre
1998
Concluded
 MA in Applied Linguistics (Master)
Cardiff University, United Kingdom
"The effect of task type on the assessment of grammatical competence in oral proficiency tests" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with Distinction
1985
Concluded
 BA Hons in French Literature and Language (Bachelor)
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
"Não teve tese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 2:1
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1998/09 - Current Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
1992/09 - 1998/09 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/29 - Current Comissão Coordenadora CiTUR-Algarve Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo - CiTUR Algarve, Portugal
2016/09 - Current Co-Editora da revista científica Dos Algarves: Tourism, Hospitality & Management Journal Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2019/11/26 - 2021/09/01 Co-Coordenação do Centro de Línguas CL-UALg Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2013/09 - 2019/07 Co-coordendadora do Grupo de Missão de Internacionalização da ESGHT Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2011/09 - 2015/07 Diretora do Núcleo de Línguas I Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
1998/09 - 2007/07 Coordenadora ERASMUS Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/01/17 - 2024/01/16 Tourism-related Entrepreneurial Lifestyle Migration in the Algarve
EXPL/GES-OUT/1395/2021
10.54499/EXPL/GES-OUT/1395/2021
Principal investigator
Centro de Investigação Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/09 - 2021/09 Rota Literária do Algarve
OPP183
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
 Governo da República Portuguesa
Concluded
2016/01/01 - 2019/12/31 MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION Y CONSTRUCCION EUROPEA: ESTUDIO SOCIOCOMUNICATIVO DE LOS RESIDENTES COMUNITARIOS EN EL SUR DE ESPAÑA Y DE PORTUGAL
CSO2015-65837-R
Researcher
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Kate Torkington; Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro. "Whose right to the city? An analysis of the mediatized politics of place surrounding alojamento local issues in Lisbon and Porto". 2022.
    10.4324/9781003230618-7
  2. Torkington, Kate. "Algumas reflexões sobre o ensino de escrita académica em inglês.". In A Investigação e a Escrita: Publicar sem Perecer, edited by P. Sequeiros; M.J. Carvalho; G. Capinha, 271-293. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2021.
    Published
  3. Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro; Kate Torkington. "A multi-method approach to research language practices amongst foreign residents in the Algarve". 215-229. Universidade do Algarve, 2018.
    10.23882/978-989-8859-31-0-017
  4. Torkington, Kate. "'The only Portuguese people I know speak English': Lifestyle migrants, local language practices and ambivalent belongings". In Practising the Good Life: Lifestyle Migration in Practices, edited by Torkington, Kate; David, I.; Sardinha, J.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
    Published
  5. Torkington, Kate. "Lifestyle migrants, the linguistic landscape and the politics of place". In Contested Spatialities, Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism, edited by Janoschka, M; Haas, H., 77-95. Routledge, 2014.
    Published • 10.4324/9780203100813
  6. Torkington, Kate. "Heroes and villains: discursive strategies for (re)producing myths of national identity in the newspaper coverage of international football". Aletheia, 2010.
Conference abstract
  1. Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão. "The 'dark side of tourism'? A discursive analysis of the conflicting representations of 'overtourism' in Portugal.". Paper presented in TMS Algarve 2018, 2018.
    Published
  2. Torkington, Kate; Jo Guiver; Davina Stanford. "Growth and sustainability: Mutually exclusive or mutually compatible strategies?". Paper presented in TMS Algarve 2018, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Pereira, Rosária; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate; Dias, Joana Afonso. "‘A true feeling of authentic portuguese golf'? The discursive construction of the Algarve region in portuguese golf websites". 2011.
  2. Ferreira, Ana Maria; Martins, Ana Isabel; Gonçalves, A. R.; Perdigão, F.; Torkington, Kate; Pereira, Luis Nobre; Martins, Paula Ventura. "Faro National Capital of Culture (FCNC 2005) and Tourism - reflections on the profile of tourists who attended the events". 2010.
  3. Torkington, Kate. "Exploring the linguistic landscape: the case of the 'Golden Triangle' in the Algarve, Portugal". 2009.
  4. Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão Alexandre. "Needs Analysis and Syllabus Design for Languages for Tourism Programmes in Higher Education". Paper presented in III Jornadas Ibéricas de Turismo, Coimbra, 2003.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Torkington, Kate. Practising the Good Life: Lifestyle Migration in Practices. Cambridge Scholars. 2015.
    Published • Editor
  2. Santos, José António; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão Alexandre; Águas, Paulo; Torkington, Kate. Book of Proceedings. of the International Conference on Tourism and Management Studies.. Faro, Portugal: Universidade do Algarve. 2011.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Karijn Nijhoff; Kate Torkington. "Clouds in the normally sunny sky? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch lifestyle entrepreneurs in the Algarve". Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 105 4 (2023): 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2022.2112739.
    Published • 10.1080/04353684.2022.2112739
  2. Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate. "Conflicting discursive representations of overtourism in Lisbon in the Portuguese digital press". International Journal of Tourism Cities 9 1 (2023): 286-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijtc-05-2022-0108.
    Published • 10.1108/ijtc-05-2022-0108
  3. Coelho, Bárbara; Levytska, Kateryna; Torkington, Kate; Ramos, Célia M.Q.. "Tourism 4.0 in Portuguese tourism businesses". International Journal of Tourism Policy 13 6 (2023): 505-524. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijtp.2023.134512.
    Published • 10.1504/ijtp.2023.134512
  4. Kate Torkington; Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro. "Whose right to the city? An analysis of the mediatized politics of place surrounding alojamento local issues in Lisbon and Porto". Journal of Sustainable Tourism 30 5 (2022): 1060-1079. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2020.1849230.
    10.1080/09669582.2020.1849230
  5. Torkington, Kate; Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Laura Lopez Romero. "The role of locally-produced foreign language media in the migration experiences of lifestyle migrants in the Algarve". Journal of Intercultural Communication 20 3 (2020): 59-73. http://immi.se/intercultural/20-3-54/Torkington-Role-54-5.html.
    Open access • Published
  6. Kate Torkington; Davina Stanford; Jo Guiver. "Discourse(s) of growth and sustainability in national tourism policy documents". Journal of Sustainable Tourism 28 7 (2020): 1041-1062. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2020.1720695.
    Published • 10.1080/09669582.2020.1720695
  7. Ribeiro, Filipa Perdigão; Torkington, Kate. "As palavras mapeiam conceitos: representações dos migrantes na imprensa digital portuguesa". Estudos em Comunicação /Communication Studies 28 1 (2019): 151-172.
    Published • 10.25768/fal.ec.n28.a08
  8. Torkington, K.; Ribeiro, F.P.. "A place in the sun? Discursive constructions of positive outcomes in post-migration stories in the Algarve". Social and Cultural Geography 20 5 (2019): 671-691. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029448703&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/14649365.2017.1373145
  9. Kate Torkington; Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro. "'What are these people: migrants, immigrants, refugees?': Migration-related terminology and representations in Portuguese digital press headlines". Discourse, Context & Media (2018): https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.dcm.2018.03.002.
    10.1016/j.dcm.2018.03.002
  10. Torkington, Kate. "Os impactos das mobilidades turísticas e migratórias na paisagem semiótica do Algarve". CES Contexto 15 (2016): 26-42.
    Published
  11. Torkington, Kate. "Tourism-related mobilities and discursive landscaping in the Algarve". Dos Algarves a Multidisciplinary e-journal 24 (2014): 40-63. https://www.dosalgarves.com/index.php/dosalgarves/article/view/13/129.
    Published
  12. Torkington, K.. "Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of 'Glocal' Place-Identity". Mobilities 7 1 (2012): 71-92. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857166235&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/17450101.2012.631812
  13. Torkington, Kate. "Defining lifestyle migration". (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1403.
  14. Torkington, Kate; Perdigão, F.. "O domínio de línguas estrangeiras no turismo e hotelaria". (2003): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1386.
  15. Torkington, Kate. "Standard English: the language of equal opportunities and national unity or discrimination and inclusion/exclusion?". (2000): http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1399.
Report
  1. Torkington, Kate; Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro; Rebelo, Sandra Cristina Francisco; Susana Conceição. 2023. DISSEMINATION REPORT ON PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THE T-rELMA RESEARCH PROJECT.
    https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2156-2
  2. Ferreira, Ana Maria; Martins, Ana Isabel; Gonçalves, Maria Alexandra; Perdigão, F.; Torkington, Kate; Pereira, Luis Nobre; Martins, Paula Ventura. 2007. O Evento FCNC 2005 e o Turismo. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/938.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Torkington, Kate. "The discursive construction of place-identity: British lifestyle migrants in the Algarve". PhD, Lancaster University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1402.
  2. Torkington, Kate. "The effect of task type on the assessment of grammatical competence in oral proficiency tests.". Master, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1387.

Other

Dataset
  1. Torkington, Kate; Torkington, Kate. Exploring the Micro-Politics of Place: Lifestyle Migrants, Collective Identities and Modes of Belonging.
    10.1037/e510312012-001
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/06/29 Lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs and the production of tourism in the rural Algarve
University of Groningen (Netherlands)
2023/05/29 Exploring the role of lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs in the creation of sustainable rural tourism activities in the Algarve.
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2023/05/24 Lifestyle migration in Portugal: from international retirement migration to lifestyle entrepreneurs.
Universidade de Lisboa (CAPP) (Portugal)
2022/11/18 Lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship and the sustainable development of tourism and rural areas in the Algarve
University of Lodz (Poland)
2019/06/18 Whose right to the city? A discursive analysis of the transformation of the historic neighbourhoods of Lisbon and Porto 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting
University of Trondheim (Trondheim, Norway)
2019/06/17 Growth and sustainability in national tourism plans Sustainable Geography- Geographies of Sustainability. 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting
University of Trondheim (Trondheim, Norway)
2018/09/14 Foreign language media consumption among northern European residents in the Algarve IV Congreso Internacional de Turismo Residencial
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
2018/09/14 European migrants in the Algarve: moving to Portugal, social relationships and integration IV Congreso Internacional de Turismo Residencial
Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
2017/07/03 ‘Uma proposta metodológica para as questões de usos da(s) língua(s) entre os residentes estrangeiros no Algarve’ ESEC 30 anos de formação em línguas
(Faro, Portugal)
2017/05/11 ‘The role of lifestyle in migration: the case of European settlers in the Algarve’. II International Congress on Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.
Universidade do Algarve (Faro, Portugal)
2017/05 “Foreign language media in the Algarve” and “Residential tourism: Context and demographic data”. Comportamento Demográfico y Mediático de las Comunidades de Residentes Extranjeros en la Costa Blanca, La Costa del Sol e el Algarve
Universidad de Alicante (Benidorm, Spain)
2016/12 ‘The discursive representation of (im)migrants and refugees in the Portuguese digital press 2011-2015’. International Conference organized by Institute for Journalism Studies
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium)
2016/06 ‘An exploration of migration-related terminology in Portuguese’ Sojourners, Economic Migrants, Expats: Temporary Migrations in Global Perspective.
Northumbria University (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)
2015/06 ‘Discursive landscaping in the Algarve: A nexus analysis of signs in public spaces’. II Simposium Internacional da EDiSo
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2015/02 Questões de usos de língua(s) e migração: o caso do Algarve 2.ª MESA REDONDA INTERDISCIPLINAR: Métodos e espaços de ação em/com português.
CES (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/08 ‘Successful migration outcomes in the Algarve, Portugal’ IMISCOE 11th Annual Conference
Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)
2014/02 ‘Migrações e questões de língua: o caso do Algarve’ Seminário “E/imigração… ontem, hoje e amanhã”,
Universidade do Algarve, ESEC (Faro, Portugal)
2013/11 ‘Discourse(s) on ‘residential tourism’ in Portugal: a critical approach’. Tourism and Management Studies – International Conference
Universidade do Algarve ESGHT (Olhão, Portugal)
2013/10 ‘The only Portuguese people I know speak English’: lifestyle migrants, local language practices and ambivalent belongings’. Practising the Good Life/The Good Life in Practices International Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2012/07 ‘A critical exploration of the discursive construction of ‘residential tourism’ in Portugal.’ Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines: CADAAD 2012
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2011/07 ‘Exploring the micro-politics of place: lifestyle migrants, collective identities and modes of belonging’. International Congress of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP 2011)
Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2011/03 ‘Lifestyle migrants, the linguistic landscape and the politics of place’. 2nd International Workshop on Lifestyle Migration and International Tourism
Centro de Ciências Humanas y Sociales (Madrid, Spain)
2010/09 ‘Spatial deixis as a self-positioning device in place-identity construction: the case of British lifestyle migrants in Portugal’. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines: CADAAD 2010
University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)
2010/06 ‘Locating lifestyle migration in the linguistic landscape’ I International Postgraduate Conference ESGHT 2010,
Universidade do Algarve, ESGHT (Faro, Portugal)
2009/09 ‘Place and lifestyle migration: the discursive construction of G/local place-identity’. Glocal Imaginaries International Conference: Writing /Migration /Place
Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2009/06 ‘Exploring personal accounts of individual motivations behind lifestyle migration: the case of British residents in the Algarve’ The Sociological Review 100th Anniversary Conference,
(Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - 2023/06/05 An Exploration of Lifestyle Migrant Entrepreneurs in Tavira, Algarve
Supervisor
 Masters in Management (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2019/01 - 2020/10 Destinos turísticos promotores de estilos de vida saudáveis: Uma oportunidade pós-COVID-19
Supervisor
 Mestrado em Turismo (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2014/09 - 2019/01 Cartas ao Editor: Construções Discursivas do Eu e do Outro na Imprensa Regional Algarvia em Língua Inglesa
Co-supervisor
 Comunicação, Cultura e Artes - Estudos Culturais (PhD)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/07 - Current VII International Postgraduate Conference Management, Hospitality, Tourism. (2016/07 - 2016/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2023/06/22 - 2023/06/22 Seminar on ALGARVE TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY, COMPETITIVENESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2023/06/22 - 2023/06/22)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo - CiTUR Algarve, Portugal
2017/04/24 - 2017/04/29 Organisation of the 32nd edition of ITSC – International Tourism Students Conference: Niche Tourism. (2017/04/24 - 2017/04/29)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2015/07 - 2015/07 VI International Postgraduate Conference Management, Hospitality, Tourism. (2015/07 - 2015/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
2013/10/17 - 2013/10/18 “Practising the Good Life / The Good Life in Practices”, International conference (2013/10/17 - 2013/10/18)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/06/05 An Exploration of Lifestyle Migrant Entrepreneurs in Tavira, Algarve
Supervisor
 Gabriella King (Master)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2015/06/30 On and off air: Ethnographic explorations of minority radio in Portugal
(Thesis) Arguer
 Inês Pereira Torcato David (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2020/01/29 - Current Membro da Comissão Coordenadora do polo Algarve do CiTUR - Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação
Member
 Centro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento e Inovação em Turismo - CiTUR Algarve, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2012/02 - Current Momento de Turismo - Radio Rua ‘Turismo, Migrações e Práticas Linguísticas no Algarve’

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2012/01 - Current Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal