Interests and Academic Roles
Areas of Interest
My academic career has allowed my to cover many interests in applied linguistics and language pedagogy. My primary research interests are in the following areas:
- academic discourse
- contrastive linguistics
- corpus linguistics
- data-driven learning and second language acquisition
- digital pedagogy
- English for academic purposes, français langue académique, Español con fines académicos
- English medium instruction
- English, French, and Spanish academic writing
- language change
- language pedagogy and English language teaching
- metadiscourse and evaluation
- spoken language research
- TESOL and materials development
If you would like to know more about any of my interests, feel free to get in touch.
Academic Membership
I have also held a number of academic roles in these institutions working on committees, event organistation, and other academic activities. I am member of the following organisations:
- Member of Corpus Linguists at Coventry University
- Associate Member of Cambridge Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Centre
- Former member of the Board of Management for OLLReN
- Member of Centre for Applied Language Studies, Limerick
- Member of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics
- Member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
- Member of British Association of Applied Linguistics
- Member of Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studies
- Member of British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purpose
Conference and Event Organisation
I have held the following roles in conference organization:
- Member of the organizing committee for the ‘Online Language Learning Research Network (OLLReN) 3rd Annual Conference, 5-6 October 2018, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Member of the organizing committee for Irish Association of Applied Linguistics Conference 2017 (IRAAL), University of Limerick, Ireland
- Member of the organizing committee for the ‘Online Language Learning Research Network (OLLReN) 2nd Annual Conference, 5-6 October 2017, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Postgraduate member of the organizing committee for the International Symposium on Bilingualism, June 2017 at the University of Limerick, Limerick
- Postgraduate member of the organizing committee for the International Research Methods Summer School 2017, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
- Conference Organizing Assistant for the Third Annual University of Limerick Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, May 2017, Limerick, Ireland