My main research interests are corpus linguistics, statistics, and the application of corpus methods in the study of speech and writing, learner language, collocations, phraseology and vocabulary. I am also interested in corpus design and corpus tools development. I welcome PhD proposals that focus on one or more of these areas.

I welcome PhD proposals that are related to my research interests. At present, I am in particular interested in supervising projects on the following topics: 1) Comparison of multiple corpora using statistical techniques and visualisation 2) Phraseology (e.g. collocations) in spoken and written learner corpora 3) Corpus-based sociolinguistics and development of new statistical methods 4) Investigation of different linguistic features in the new Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken L2 English

At present, I am working on the development of the Written British National Corpus and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken L2 English.  I also focus on methodological innovation in corpus linguistics and English vocabulary.

British National Corpus (BNC) as a sociolinguistic dataset: Exploring individual and social variation 

This project is funded by an ESRC Secondary data initiative (SDAI) grant EP/P001559/1. The aim of the project is to investigate sociolinguistic variation in the British National Corpus and implement the results of the research in educational practice.  

MA in English Linguistics & Philosophy (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

PhD in Linguistics (University of Auckland, New Zealand)