2021-present
Lecturer in English Language at University of Bedfordshire
Introduction to Linguistics and Phonetics (Level 4)
How Talk Works (Level 4)
Describing Language (Level 4)
The Sounds of English (Level 5)
The Meaning of Meaning (Level 5)
Applying Linguistics (Exploring Language Professions) including TEFL, Corpus Linguistics & Language Learning, Corpus Linguistics & Discourse Analysis, Translation or ‘Transcreation’, Corpus Pragmatics & Online Pragmatics, Forensic Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics (Level 6)
Psycholinguistics: language and the brain (Level 6)
Forensic Linguistics (Level 6)
The Language System and Language Teaching (Level 7)
Research modules:
Exploring Research: Concepts and Methods on the MA in Applied Linguistics & TEFL to both our Bedford and Majan cohorts (Level 7)
BA and MA Dissertation supervision
Areas of enquiry for PhD supervision include, but are not limited to:
- Pragmatics
- Relevance theory
- Interlanguage Pragmatics / Instructional Pragmatics
- Pragmatics & prosody
- Multimodality (prosody and gesture in interaction)
- First and second language development, (social) cognition and psychology
- Pragmatics of humour, irony, sarcasm
- Pragmatics of manipulation (Forensic Linguistics)
- or a combination of these areas
2019-2021
Visiting Lecturer in English at Middlesex University
Global Englishes (Level 4)
Language, Literature and Creative Writing (Level 4)
Research Practice and Professional Communication (Level 5)
BA Dissertation supervision
2016-2020
HPL at University of Brighton
Introductory Pragmatics (Level 4)
Phonetics and Phonology (Level 4)
Morphology and Syntax (Level 4)
Second Language Acquisition (Level 7)

