I am a Reader in Languages and Linguistics and UKRI Metascience AI Fellow within the School of English, at Manchester Metropolitan University and Co-Lead of the Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics.
More about my background
I completed my PhD at the University of Limerick, Ireland and, following that, worked at Cambridge University Press, where I held the post of Senior Research Manager. In that role, I channeled research into practice by using and conducting research to inform the development of educational materials and resources for language learning. I then held the post of Assistant Professor at Coventry University before joining the School of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. At Manchester Metropolitan University, I lecture and conduct research on a range of topics in applied linguistics, spanning artificial intelligence, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English-medium instruction, metadiscourse, public-oriented research communication, scientific and academic communication, second language acquisition, systemic functional linguistics, TESOL, and translation.
I have been PI and Co-I on a number of research projects. I am currently leading “GenAI in the Disciplines”, funded by UKRI Metascience.
I am Co-Editor of Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics and Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides book series, Section Editor of the Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Associate Fellow of the Global China Academy, a Géras International Correspondent, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and I am a member of the IVACS Advisory Board. I am External Examiner at the University of Sussex, UK and Mary Immaculate College, Ireland, and I was a Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, 2023.
Click here for a list of my research interests
- Artificial Intelligence;
- contrastive linguistics;
- corpus-based contrastive discourse approaches;
- corpus pragmatics approaches;
- corpus studies for language teaching and materials development;
- disciplinary perspectives on language;
- English-medium instruction;
- genre and register analysis;
- knowledge construction and knowledge across cultures;
- language of global crises;
- studies of academic discourse, public-oriented research communication, and online communication;
- studies of evaluation, appraisal, and metadiscourse;
- studies in language pedagogy; and
- studies on technology, blended learning, and digital pedagogies.
I keep Open Access links to and copies of my research on this site and post videos of my online and recorded talks.
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