I am a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Aston University. I am based in the Department of Communication and Culture, where I am Programme Director for our BA (Hons) Digital Media and Communication degree. As of 2026, I am seconded to the senior leadership position of Associate Dean Education and Student Experience in the School of Law and Social Sciences.
I am a researcher and educator in English language and linguistics, working in the areas of corpus linguistics, applied linguistics and discourse analysis. I sit on the Executive Committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) as Editor of BAAL News, and I am Convenor of the BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group.
I completed my BA (Hons), MA and PhD degrees at Lancaster University where, as a member of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, I was lead researcher on the design and construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014. I then held fixed-term research positions at Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the University of Leeds before joining Aston University in 2020.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Linguistics, Lancaster University, 2018
- MA Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University, 2014
- BA (Hons) Linguistics, Lancaster University, 2013
Professional accreditation
- Adobe Education Institute Fellow, Adobe, 2024
- Specialist Certificate in AI for Learning (CDLS), Digital Learning Institute, 2023
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE, 2021
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Dr Robbie Love 