Other roles

This page outlines various roles and tasks I have undertaken, other than teaching and research.

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Roles in the academic community

I serve as the (co)editor-in-chief for the European Journal of Education & Language Review. I have served in this role since the journal’s establishment in 2025.
I served as editor for Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching (Q1 in Language and Linguistics) from 2018 to 2019.
I am a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes.
I served on the editorial board of the Journal of English as an International Language (Q1 for Language and Linguistics) until its publication was discontinued in 2021.

I have provided peer review services for multiple academic journals, including the following:

See also my Publons profile for a detailed list of reviewing activity.

Selected chapters in Janík, M. & Cataldo-Schwarzl, L. (Eds). (2024). Multilingual education in the flow: Research-based approaches to teaching in times of global opportunities and challenges. Waxmann.
Orange, V. (2019). Supercomplexity in Interaction. Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan.
Selected chapters in Kayi-Aydar, H. et al. (Eds). (2019). Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Gkonou, C. & Mercer, S. (2017). Understanding emotional and social intelligence among English language teachers. British Council.
Selected chapters in Ahmadian, M. J. & García Mayo, M. P. (Eds) (2015). Recent perspectives on task-based language learning and teaching. De Gruyter Mouton.

I coordinated peer review for the Language Education Across Borders international conference (Graz, 2017).
I provided peer review for the 2017 Annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics, TESOL 2020 and the 2022 International Symposium for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL25). I also reviewed papers for the Displacement and Education conference (Volos, 2022).

I am a member of the standing departmental Internal Quality Review committee (from April 2022 onwards).
I sit at the International Education Programmes & Erasmus+ standing committee (from October 2021 onwards).
I served at the standing departmental committee for teacher placements (October 2020 to January 2025).
I served in the organising committee of the Displacement and Education conference (December 2022).
I served in the organising committee of the Ideologies, Language Communication and Education conference (November 2019).

I coordinate the Teacher Practicum of the Language Education for Refugees and Migrants MA programme. In this capacity, I am also a member of the programme’s standing curriculum committee.

In this post, I was responsible for multiple ad hoc administrative duties, including the following:

organising the Language Education Across Borders international conference (December 2016 – December 2017);
assistance in the preparation of the five-year review of the ELT Research and Methodology section (January-February 2017);
assistance in promoting the online visibility of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning (e.g., website design, content creation) (December 2015 – May 2017).

In this post, I was responsible for the development of the following policies:

I support, in an advisory capacity, the language education provision of the Portaria Experimental Primary School.
I organised a series of webinars for professional development of language teachers, which can be accessed from the University of Graz podcast portal.
I provide external peer review for professional journals, including: Aspects Today, the journal of the Panhellenic [i.e., Greek national] Association of State School Teachers of English (ΠΕΚΑΔΕ).

This page was last updated in April 2026.

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