Research funding

External funding

• 2023: Co-Investigator, Crown Prosecution Service, ‘Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Ethnic Disproportionality in Prosecution Case Files’ (£55,192), Aston University.
• 2019: Principal Investigator, National Trust, ‘The changing nature of language’ (£3,500), University of Leeds.
• 2018: Visiting Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Post-doctoral fellowship (short-term), ‘Updating AntConc for spoken and educational language data’ (£8,363), Waseda University.

Internal funding

• 2023-2024: Principal Investigator, College of Business and Social Sciences Learning and Teaching Project Fund, ‘English assessment and generative AI: opportunities, risks and perceptions’ (£2,150), Aston University.
• 2022: Principal Investigator, Research England, Aston Research & Knowledge Exchange Pump Priming Fund, ‘Engaging the public: local government organisations’ communications during the COVID-19 pandemic’ (£10,454), Aston University.
• 2021-2022: Principal Investigator, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (AIFL) Seed-corn and network funds programme, ‘Evaluating human and automated transcripts of speech recordings: implications for forensic linguistics’ (£6,000), Aston University.
• 2013-2017: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Scholarship (1+3), ‘The Spoken British National Corpus 2014’ (£72,554), Lancaster University.

Funded academic events

• 2021: Co-organiser, Aston Centre for Applied Linguistics (ACAL) research fund. ‘Aston Corpus Linguistics Symposium‘ (£300), Aston University.
• 2021: Lead organiser, BAAL/Cambridge University Press seminar. ‘Corpora in Applied Linguistics: Broadening the Agenda‘ (£1,500), Aston University.

Roles on funded research projects

• 2018-2025: Project advisor, Cambridge University Press & Assessment: ‘The criterial features of the Cambridge Assessment English reading item bank’. University of Leeds, UK (PGR: Darren Perrett).
• 2021-2023: Project advisor, Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education: ‘Internationalizing Master Programmes in Agriculture via English Medium Instruction (IMPROVE_AGRO)‘, Freiburg University of Education, Germany (PI: Matthias Hutz).
• 2018-2020: Research assistant, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): ‘The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school‘, University of Leeds, UK (PI: Alice Deignan).
• 2013-2018: Postgraduate researcher, Economic and Social Research Council & Cambridge University Press: ‘The Spoken British National Corpus 2014‘, Lancaster University, UK (PIs: Tony McEnery & Claire Dembry).

Studentship

• 2013-2017: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Scholarship, MA & PhD (1+3) (£72,554), Lancaster University.