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Current projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Young People, Criticality and Figurative Language	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 October 2024	31 March 2027
Reimagine essay-based assessment in the wake of ChatGPT: insights from corpus-based analyses of ChatGPT - assisted writing, university student writing, and IELTS writing and human feedback on them	British Council	1 April 2024	30 December 2024

Past projects

Title	Funder	Start date	End date
Unveiling the factors for the predictive validity of IELTS for postgraduate studies: assessment, teaching and learning in the TLU domain	British Council	31 January 2021	1 January 2023
ETHER Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other: New Frameworks for Engaging with Difference	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 November 2020	30 April 2022
The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)	1 September 2018	30 June 2021
The state of English as Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education institutions in Indonesia	The British Council Indonesia	1 March 2019	31 October 2019
‘Sticky Objects’ and pathways to wellbeing: teacher understandings of and practices in positive psychology in their classrooms	British Council	1 September 2018	30 August 2019
Investigating the applicability of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for self-assessment in tertiary writing instruction in China: accessibility, effectiveness, feasibility and usefulness	British Council	1 September 2017	1 February 2019
Updating AntConc for spoken and educational language data	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)	1 November 2018	31 January 2019
Translation and translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities	Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)	1 January 2014	31 December 2018
The challenge of transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3	British Academy	1 October 2012	30 September 2014
Perceptions of language and identity amongst international MA TESOL students		1 October 2011	31 December 2013
Delta trainers' cognitions and practices		1 January 2013	30 November 2013
The impact of teacher education on pre-service English language teachers		1 November 2012	31 October 2013
Inspiring teachers	British Council	1 January 2012	31 May 2013
CPD for ITE Providers		1 September 2011	31 July 2012
Learner Autonomy: English Language Teachers' Beliefs and Practices	British Council	1 October 2010	30 September 2011
Teaching English Radio	British Council	1 January 2011	31 July 2011
EAL additional experience pilot	TDA (Teaching and Development Agency for Schools)	1 September 2010	31 July 2011
The target language revisited		1 June 2010	30 June 2011
HENNA (Harehills ESOL Needs Neighbourhood Audit) project	Leeds City Council/YoHRSpace	1 November 2010	31 May 2011
Teacher learning on the Delta	Cambridge ESOL	1 September 2009	31 July 2010
Identity Online	British Academy	1 October 2007	30 March 2010
The impact on students of British Council EFL classes	British Council	1 November 2008	30 June 2009
To what extent does IELTS encourage communicative language teaching in Chinese IELTS classes?		1 February 2009	31 March 2009
Mother Tongue Language Policy in a Globalising World: The Case of Eritrea	British Academy	1 August 2008	31 October 2008
IELTS Listening		1 March 2007	31 January 2008
Indonesian Islamic School Headmasters Programme in Educational Leadership and Management	British Council	1 February 2005	31 December 2005
Tianjin Higher Education Management Summer School		1 June 2005	31 July 2005
Developing Practice in Teaching English to Young Learners - Slovenia		1 May 2005	30 June 2005
Iraqi English Language Development		1 March 2005	30 June 2005
MA TESOL - Oman		1 May 2005	30 June 2005
BA Educational Studies (TESOL) - Oman		1 November 1999	31 May 2005
Language and Learning in Science		1 January 2000	28 February 2000