About
I am the co-director of the ESRC-funded which investigates the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax by English learners. SPLLOC is the first corpus of learner oral data completely open-access and freely available to the research and teaching communities.
I am the PI of an AHRC research project investigating native language attrition, changes in the grammars of native speakers as the result of learning a second language.
- I am a member of the editorial board of 鈥楽econd Language Research鈥�, the 鈥楽panish Heritage Journal鈥� and 鈥楽intagma鈥�. Ex member of the editorial board of 鈥楽tudies in Second Language Acquisition鈥� and the 鈥楯ournal of the European Second Language Association鈥�.
- Ex-member of the 鈥楨uropean Second Language Association鈥� (EuroSLA) Executive Committee.
- Member of the 鈥楨SRC Peer Review College鈥�.
- Associate Member of the Centre for Research & Enterprise in Language (CREL). University of Greenwich, UK.
- Associate Member of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM). University of Reading, UK.
- Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) (ordinary member).
Service to the Department (Modern Languages and Linguistics):
- Head of Department (2021-2025)
- REF Champion for Impact (REF2021)
- Deputy Head of Department (2018-2019)
- Head of Research (2016-2019)
- Linguistics Section Leader (2011-2015)
Service to the University:
- Member of the University鈥檚 Senate (2020-2023)
- Member of the REF-Impact review working group (2021)
- Member of the QS World Rankings Advisory Group (2019-2020)
Other appointments:
- Member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel (2021-2025)
- External examiner for MA (Taught) programmes in Linguistics and Linguistics and ELT at the University of Leeds (2018-2022)