“I don’t just teach English. I teach people to say what they actually mean”
After thirty years teaching English across eleven countries — and fifteen years leading digital learning at the University of Sheffield’s English Language Centre — I've come back to what I love most: working directly with individual learners, one to one, with no institutional constraints and no generic lesson plans.
Career Highlights
2014-2025
Director of Technology Enhanced Learning, University of Sheffield ELTC
Built and managed the centre's entire online learning provision, led institutional Generative AI policy, and developed the online CELTA programme — one of the first of its kind in UK university language teaching.
2005-2014
EFL and CELTA tutor/teacher trainer
Delivered CELTA teacher training and distance learning writing support at Sheffield, and before that trained teachers across the USA, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Costa Rica and Bulgaria with UCC and SIT Global
1998-2005
Director of Studies and Open Society Fellow
Delivered CELTA teacher training and distance learning writing support at Sheffield, and before that trained teachers across the USA, Kyrgyzstan, Korea, Costa Rica and Bulgaria with UCC and SIT Global
1993-1998
EFL and CELTA tutor/teacher trainer
Started teaching general English and exam preparation — FCE, CAE, CPE, TOEFL — in Cambridge, Croatia and Greece. This is where the thirty years begins
Awards and Recognitions
SFHEA (Senior Fellow of Higher Academy)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, University of Sheffield 2020.
Google Certified Teacher
One of fifty teachers selected globally to attend the certification summit in London, 2012
NADP Service Team Award
National Association of Disability Practitioners, 2024.
Teaching Practice Award
University of Sheffield, 2024
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