David Britain obtained his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom in 1991 and worked at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and the University of Essex before becoming Professor of Modern English Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Bern in Switzerland in 2010. His research interests embrace language variation and change, varieties of English (especially in England, the Southern Hemisphere, especially New Zealand, Australia and the Falkland Islands, and the Pacific, especially Micronesia), dialect contact and attrition, new dialect formation, second dialect acquisition, dialect ideologies and the use of new technologies, such as smartphone applications, in collecting dialect data. He is also actively engaged in research at the dialectology-human geography interface, especially with respect to space/place, urban/rural and the role of mobilities. He was Associate Editor of Journal of Sociolinguistics from 2008 to 2017, co-author with Laura Rupp of Linguistic perspectives on a variable English morpheme: let’s talk about –s (Palgrave, 2019) and has forthcoming co-authored texts on both Micronesian and Falkland Island Englishes. He currently leads a large international project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation conducting a new national survey of the dialects of England and Wales.