Teaching

Aston University (2020-)

I am a Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the School of Law and Social Sciences at Aston University. I teach a range of topics in the fields of English Language and Linguistics. I am an Advance HE Fellow (FHEA), a Certified Digital Learning Specialist (CDLS), and an Adobe Education Institute Fellow.

Teaching

As of 2025-26, I convene the following modules:

  • LE3134 Applied English Linguistics
  • LEM138 Corpus Linguistics

I also supervise dissertation projects for our BA English Language, MA English and MA Forensic Linguistics programmes, as well as undergraduate integrated placement year projects.

I have previously convened or taught on the following modules:

  • LE1104 Practical Applications of Language Description
  • LE2101 Crime Fiction
  • LE2118 Advanced Topics in Sociolinguistics
  • LE2120 Language in the News Media
  • LE2126 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
  • LE3115 Multimodal Analysis
  • LE3120 English Dissertation
  • LE3123 Digital Approaches to Analysing Texts
  • LE3133 Corpus Linguistics
  • LEM100 Analysing Discourse
  • LEM133 Multimodal Analysis
  • LEM136 Variation and Change in English

PhD supervision

Completed

  • Polina Gavin (2024; Aston University; associate supervisor)
  • Caroline Godfrey (2025; Aston University; associate supervisor)
  • Ikram Messaoudi (2025; University of Limerick; external co-supervisor)
  • Darren Perrett (2025; University of Leeds; external co-supervisor)

Current

  • Lily Calloway (Aston University; associate supervisor)
  • Hadjar Hadj-Abdelkader (University of Limerick; external co-supervisor)
  • Abigail Kinsella (Aston University; main supervisor)
  • Chris Walker (Aston University; associate supervisor)

Teaching awards

I have been nominated for four teaching awards at the Aston Students’ Union Academic Awards, in the categories ‘online learning’ (2021), ‘research or dissertation supervisor’ (2022), ‘teaching – engagement’ (2021, 2022) and ‘feedback and development’ (2024). I was the winner of the ‘research or dissertation supervisor’ award in 2022.

University of Leeds (2018-2020)

I was a Research Fellow in Applied and Corpus Linguistics at the School of Education, University of Leeds. I taught on modules on English language description for TESOL (level 4), analysing language (level 7), corpus linguistics in the classroom (level 7) and investigating language for TESOL (level 7).

Lancaster University (2014-2017)

I was an Associate Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. I led seminars on undergraduate modules on linguistics, linguistic typology, corpus-based English language studies and a postgraduate research methods in corpus linguistics module.