Teaching

I am a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. I am also Course Tutor for Year 1 Joint Honours in Humanities.

My teaching responsibilities are:

Undergraduate

​I currently lead undergraduate modules in:

  • ​Forensic linguistics (Level 3)
  • Discourse analysis (Level 2)
  • Applying Methods in Linguistics (Level 2)
  • Language in Context (Level 1)

​I also contribute to teaching on the team-taught module Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Level 1)

I also supervise around ten undergraduate linguistics dissertation students per year.

Postgraduate

I am currently supervising two PhD students. Since 2014 I have successfully supervised 12 students through our MA in Linguistics by research, and five students through the MA in Media and Globalisation programme. In addition to PhD and MA supervision, I also deliver lectures on the MA modules:

  • MA Media and Globalisation
  • Philosophical Approaches to Research

​Awards and Nominations

  • In 2020 I won the NTSU Award for Outstanding Teaching in the School of Arts and Humanities.
  • ​​In 2017 I was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award, and was the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Teacher Award for Early Career Teacher.
  • In 2016 and 2019 I was shortlisted for an NTSU Award for Outstanding Teaching in the School of Arts and Humanities.