I'm an Associate Professor of Education (Applied Linguistics) based at the University of Leicester, where I work as the Director of Research in the School of Education. Prior to coming to Leicester, I taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and York in the UK and Ehime and Kansai Gaidai Universities in Japan. In the course of my career I've worked as a teacher trainer and language educator in various countries around the world, including stints in Poland, Hungary, Italy, and Australia.