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 Mary Immaculate College, BA Arts, since 2022.
• External Examiner for PhDs in the UK, Norway, and Spain, since 2021.

Conference and Event Organisation

• 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.

Current Editorial Roles

• Co-series Editor, with Anne O’Keeffe, for Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics Series, since 2023. Available here.
• Co-series Editor, with Anne O’Keeffe, for Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides Series, since 2023. Available here.
• Section Editor for the “Discourse, Genre, and Conversation Analysis” sections of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2021 – 2026.

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

• Member of the Scientific Committee on the International Journal of English Studies, since 2022.
• Member of the Scientific Committee on the Journal of Computer-Assisted Linguistic Research, since 2022.

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.

Prizes and Awards

• Appointed as Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 2023.
• Appointed as Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2023 in recognition of excellence in teaching, learning, and educational research.
• Awarded “Exceptional Performance Award” in 2022 for my work at Coventry University on internal policy development and for my research activity throughout the academic year 2021 – 2022.
• Awarded “Exceptional Performance Award” in 2021 for my work at Coventry University supporting the COVID-19 online transition and for my research activity throughout the academic year 2020 – 2021.
• Appointed as ASPiRE Fellow to the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University in 2020 in recognition of excellence in early career research practices.
• Appointed as Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2020 in recognition of excellence in teaching and learning.
• Awarded Dean’s Prize for Conference Poster Presentation in 2017 as part of my Ph.D. studies.

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.