Karin Zotzmann

title of speech
“Abstraction versus idealization in models of corruption:
An engagement with Critical Realism and the wider philosophy of science in relation to the role of agents, culture and structure in acts of corruption”

Dr. Karin Zotzmann works as an associate professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton. She has published on the marketization of higher education, intercultural language education, social class and intersectionality in language teaching and learning and academic literacy. She is currently working on a book entitled: Corruption: A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis to be published in 2022. Her work is theoretically informed by Critical Realism.