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