Professional Activities
Co-founder and Co-convenor of the BALEAP In-sessional Special Interest Group
Reviewer, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Reviewer, BALEAP Conference Proceedings
Assessor, BALEAP Accreditation Scheme (BAS)
BALEAP TEAP Observer
Conference Roles
- Alternative approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration: navigating new challenges, alignments and alliances in ‘Contextual complexities of interdisciplinary collaboration to demystify academic discourses’ at The Society for Research into Higher Education International Research Conference: Higher Education Research, Practice, and Policy: Connections and Complexities (Aston University, 2023)
- Collaborative communication is the key to success at Association for Dental Education in Europe Conference: Collaborative Education in a Digital Era (University of Liverpool, 2023)
- Venturing out of my EAP comfort zone and making the familiar strange: a practitioner reconstructed in collaboration with the disciplines at BALEAP 2023 Biennial Conference: Caution! EAP under Deconstruction (University of Warwick, 2023)
- An interdisciplinary approach to communication in clinical settings at Learning and Teaching Conference: Student Inclusion and Belonging (University of Liverpool, 2022)
- Taking the plunge: making the transition from Pre-sessional to In-sessional teaching at BALEAP 2021 Biennial Conference: Pedagogical Approaches in English for Academic Purposes (University of Glasgow, 2021)
- Hearing voices in the patterns: Patients living with terminal cancer at 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference: SFL on Multiliteracies, Professional Discourse and Education (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 2019)
- A discipline-specific approach to the uses of literature at EAP in Ireland Annual Conference: English in Academic Contexts: Drivers of Collaboration, Innovation and Creativity (University College Cork, 2019)
- EAP in the disciplines and EAP as a discipline at EAP in Ireland Annual Conference: EAP as a Learning Community: New Directions and Opportunities (Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, 2018)
- Developments in medical training and communication: lessons from terminal illness at 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference: Systemic Functional Linguistics on Language, Specialised Knowledge and Literacy (Università di Pavia, 2018)
- The uses of literature in three academic disciplines at BALEAP 2017 Biennial Conference: Addressing the state of the union: Working together = learning together (University of Bristol, 2017)
Examination Roles
- University of Glasgow, English for Academic Purposes (PGT, 2021 - 2025)
- Keele University, English for Academic Purposes (PGT, 2014 - 2018)