I am Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Language and Social Justice Research at York St John University. I teach on the BA English Language and Linguistics and the MA Postgraduate Linguistics programmes.
My main teaching and research interests are in the areas of classroom discourse analysis; language, gender and sexuality; language in education; gender and sexuality in education. I have published widely in these areas (see Research and Publications section below). I am co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality book series and the Cambridge Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality book series.
BA (Central England), PGCE (Birmingham), PhD (Birmingham), SFHEA
- BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics
- BA (Hons) English Language, Linguistics and TESOL
- BA (Hons) Japanese, TESOL and Linguistics
- BA (Hons) Korean, TESOL and Linguistics
- MA TESOL
Recent publications
- Book series editor: Cambridge Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality (Cambridge University Press)
- Book series editor: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Editorial board membership of the Journal of Language and Sexuality
- Editorial board member of the Gender and Language journal
- Director of the ‘York St John University Centre for Language and Social Justice Research
