I started teaching EAP and ESP at the University of Portsmouth in September 2007. I have an AHRC-funded PhD in Applied Linguistics and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I teach on the following EAP and ESP units:

Undergraduate:

• Business Communication
• Marketing and Communication

Postgraduate:

• Technical Communication
• Communication in Professional Contexts
• Improving your Academic English for Dissertation and Final Report Writing
• Developing Scientific Language for Presentation, Seminar and Group Work
• Developing an Academic Style: Phrase and Sentence Structure
• From Taking Notes to Writing Assignments 

I also teach translation technologies (corpus/glossary building and pre- and post-editing of machine translation) at postgraduate level.

My main research interests are in:

• Technical communication (particularly the history of technical communication)
• Tattoos (particularly tattooing in Japan and Japanese style tattoos outside of Japan)
• EAP and ESP teaching in Japan

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the above areas.

I have written a book Controlling Language in Industry: Controlled Languages for Technical Documents (Palgrave Macmillan) and edited a book Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication (ISTC Books).

I collaborate regularly with researchers in Japan, particularly from Kanto Gakuin University (関東学院大学).