I am interested in student and teacher agency, particularly related to language education and international education. I have training in social research, qualitative research and data analytics. I supervise doctoral students in intercultural education and learning technology.

I have been a language teacher for twenty five years in South Korea, Bulgaria, Spain, Hungary, Scotland and England. Since 2008, I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the universities of Liverpool, Bristol and St Andrews.

I am a committee member of the IATEFL English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group (ESPSIG). I am a committee member of the TEFL Workers Union. I am a member of Language in the Human-Machine Era Education Working Group. I am convenor of the International Education Institute ethics committee and I am a member of the University of St Andrews teaching and research ethics committee (UTREC).

I am module convenor of the English for Academic Purposes module on the MSc TESOL. I convene the China Scholarship Council (CSC) doctoral induction module. I supervise Masters dissertations for the MSc TESOL and MSc International Education. I am a doctoral supervisor on the DProf TESOL programme.

I also have experience teaching and convening in-sessional and pre-sessional English for Academic Purposes modules, doctoral writing workshops, intercultural communication, an undergraduate module: Language and the Mind, and various summer schools and short courses.

I am interested in:

• International education
• Student and teacher agency
• Technology and human agency
• TESOL
• English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
• English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
• Social theory and social ontology
• Technology and language education