Academic Service
Academic Board, Committee, and Network Membership

Advisory Board member of the Teaching and Language Corpora (since 2022) and Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (since 2021).

Géras International Correspondent.

Member of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (2018-present); Corpus Linguists at Coventry University (2019 – 2023).

Associate Member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Limerick (2020 – Present).

Research Officer for the Online Language Learning Research Network (2017 – 2019).

External Examination

External Examiner for University of Sussex, MA Applied Linguistics (2024-present).

External Examiner for Mary Immaculate College, BA Arts, since 2022.

External Examiner for PhDs in the UK, Norway, Italy, Hong Kong, and Spain, since 2021.

Conference and Event Organisation

Lead organiser of the Inaugural Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics Annual Symposium: Linguistics in Action, 2025.

Chair of the, “Teaching and Language Corpora” Conference, 2024.

Lead organiser of the the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG symposium on Corpus Perspectives on Climate Discourses, 2024.

Co-organiser of the symposium, “Transcending Boundaries: Fostering an Open Research-Teaching Dialogue in English Language Teaching (ELT), 2023.

Lead organiser of UKRI funded symposium, “Meeting Future Challenges in Language Testing and Teaching: Building Teams, Setting Goals”, 2023.

Lead organiser of UKRI funded symposium, “Meeting Future Challenges in Language Testing and Teaching: Building Teams, Setting Goals”, 2022.

Co-organiser of the BAAL/CUP symposium, “Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda”, 2021.

Lead organiser of, “AcWriMo2019 Twitter Chat”, a collaborative Twitter chat event between Coventry University and Cambridge University Press 2019.

Member of the organising committee for, “Online Language Learning Research Network” conferences, 2017 – 2019.

Member of the organising committee for, “Irish Association of Applied Linguistics”,

Member of the organising committee for the, “International Symposium on Bilingualism”, 2017.

Lead organiser of, “Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Community Seminars”, 2016 – 2017.

Previous Editorial Roles

Managing Editor for the Journal of Academic Writing, 2019 – 2023.

Editor of the Cambridge Papers in ELT, 2017 – 2019.

Editor of the OLLReN Research Reviews, 2017 – 2019.

Editorial Board Memberships

Reviewing Activity

Funding Councils: AHRC | ESRC

Journals: Corpora; Innovations in Education and Teaching; International Journal of Corpus Linguistics; International Journal of English Studies; Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research; Journal of English for Academic Purposes; Lingua.

Publishing Houses: Cambridge University Press; Routledge; Bloomsbury; Springer; Palgrave.

Conferences: AESLA; International Corpus Linguistics Conference; International Research Methods; IRAAL; IVACS; TaLC.

Impact Work

Delta Qualification: My research has been used to validate the DELTA qualification for online delivery with Ofqual and QAA.

Equality and Inclusion Framework: My research has been used to facilitate the development of more inclusive language teaching materials at Cambridge University Press.

Digital Pedagogy Framework and Guidelines: My research has been used to facilitate the development of effective online teaching guidelines at Cambridge University Press and the Institute of Coding.

Educational Materials: My research has been used to inform coursebooks e.g. Evolve, Unlock, Talent, Mindset for IELTS, Empower and lesson plans e.g. Teenage and adult learners: developing conversation skills through collaborative activities.

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