Category: Notes & Updates
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March 2026: Notes on academic collaboration, strain, and scholarly direction
March 2026 was a month dominated by the kick-off meeting of the LocalLing project, perhaps the most important thing I’ve done in my academic life. This is how it unfolded.
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February 2026: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
February 2026 update on publishing, research, projects and other aspects of academic life.
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January 2026: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
January 2026 update on publishing, research, projects and other aspects of academic life.
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December 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
An end-of-year post on academic life and how it intersects with publishing, workshops organisation, and lessons about trust and letting go.
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November 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
Tucked between October’s rush and December’s sparkle, November unfolds in steady academic labour.
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October 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
October 2025 update on publications, workshops and projects: reflections on teaching, collaboration and academic life this autumn.
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September 2025: Notes on Teaching, Research, and Writing
This post gathers a handful of recent updates from my desk: celebrating a successful doctoral defense, progress on projects like ReaLiTea, AI-Lang, and LocaLLing, and sharing some publishing opportunities. I also highlight recent reading and offer a glimpse behind the scenes, where student encounters remind me what academic life is really about.
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Sexist Peer Review; Non-replicable Science; and Flexible Job Searches
About this article: This is a summary of blog posts, articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing, which were published in the last week of April 2015. The topics covered in this post include: Can you get away with sexist remarks in peer review? Is it really a…
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IATEFL 2015: A retrospective
During IATEFL 2015, I made extensive notes about the sessions that I attended, as I had planned to write up summaries for this blog. It seems, however, that my own recollections of, and reactions to, many sessions have become weaker in the weeks since the conference. However, there’s already quite a lot of material available online, including video…