My research interests include academic literacies, second language reading and writing, EAP, academic integrity, plagiarism, intertextuality, and study skills.

I am a Senior Research Associate on the ESRC-funded project The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation: Academics' Writing Practices in the Contemporary University Workplace.

I worked as a business English teacher, teacher trainer and lecturer in Central Europe and Japan before moving to Lancaster in 2009. I was academic coordinator of Lancaster University's EAP/Study Skills Programme, and then a student learning advisor in Lancaster University Management School before returning to my 'home' department of Linguistics and English Language in early 2015.

PhD in Linguistics

MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL 

Cambridge RSA Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults 

Trinity Certificate in TESOL 

BA in Community Education