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• BA European Studies (French & Politics)
• RSA Dip TEFLA
• MA Applied Linguistics with TEFL

I taught English and French as a volunteer in Sudanese schools in Darfur and Kordofan in the early 1980s. After a brief period as a market researcher back in my native London, I went to Indonesia, where I lived and worked for some ten years as an EFL teacher and course designer and then as coordinator of a British aid–funded language education development project. I have been working at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ since 1994.

Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Intercultural Communication; English as a ‘Global Language’; Language Teaching Methodology; Language Syllabus Design.

I am interested in supervising MA and MPhil research in the following areas:

media discourse
intercultural communication
the role and status of English as an international language
language and ‘globalisation’
concepts of culture and ideology in political and news discourse
‘culture’ as a factor in L2 learning / teaching / course design

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡.

My main areas of interest are discourse and ideology, media discourse, and language and intercultural communication. I am particularly interested by developments in British discourse relating to the role of religion in public life.

Convenor, MA programmes in:

• Applied Linguistics
• Applied Corpus Linguistics
• Critical Discourse, Culture & Communication
• English Language & Applied Linguistics
• TESOL

Head of Postgraduate Studies (Taught), 2013 - present