RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • German for Academic Purposes - Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache in the teaching of German as a foreign language
  • Vocabulary acquisition through corpora
  • Sociolinguistics: Multilingualism in London, language policies   
  • German - English translation research and practice

Selected publications
  • 2017. "Konzeption und Umsetzung einer Lernplattform zur Entwicklung von Lesekompetenzen im Bereich Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache" in Akten des XIII. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Shanghai 2015: „Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation“. Berlin: Peter Lang
  • 2016. Research Report:  Every graduate a linguist – Building strategic language capability through IWLP. British Academy. Available online at http://www.britac.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=15707  
  • 2016. "Language policies and the politics of urban multilingualism". In The Multilingual City. Vitality, Conflict and Change. Carson, L. & King, L. (eds). Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 118 - 52. 
  • 2015. "Im Netz der Wörter. Lernerzentrierte Strategien zur Wortschatzerweiterung mit Hilfe elektronischer Korpora und Wörterbücher", in Hans P. Krings, Bärbel Kühn (eds) Fremdsprachliche Lernprozesse. Erträge des 4. Bremer Symposiums zum Fremdsprachenlehren und -lernen. Bochum: AKS-Verlag, pp. 210 - 223. 
  • 2015. With Mehmedbegovic, Dina and Byrne, Nick and Harding-Esch, Philip. LUCIDE City Report – London. LUCIDE. Availabe from: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60974/ 
  • 2011. ‘Everyday academic language in German Historiography’, German as a Foreign Language (GFL), issue 1/2011, 99-123
  • 2007. “Metadiscourse in German History Writing and English Translation: A Study of Interaction between Writers and Readers.” Unpublished PhD thesis,  University of Manchester
  • 2004/2005. ‘Review of Corpus–based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies’, Languages in Contrast 5 (1): 176-79
  • 2002. ‘The 1998 Human Rights Act and Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom’, Centre for British Studies Working Papers, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin [Available at http://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/publications/working-papers]
  • 2000. ‘Teaching Languages and the Internet’ in Challenges for Business Administrators in the New Millennium. First International Joint Symposium on Business Administration, ed. by D. Köksal, et al, Gökçeada–Çanakale (Turkey): 702–708

Recent conference papers
  • 2015. Konzeption und Umsetzung einer Lernplattform zur Entwicklung von Lesekompetenzen im Bereich Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache. Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. XIII. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung  für Germanistik (IVG).  Shanghai, 23 – 31 August 2015
  • 2015. with Peter Jones "'We will only translate in those cases where it suits us': The Politics, Policies and Social Practices of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Two London Boroughs". English & Multilingualism in 21st Century Europe. University of Maynooth, Ireland, 12 June 2015
  • 2014. "Urban multilingualism - the situation in London", presentation at the LUCIDE Final Conference: The future of the multilingual city, London, London School of Economics, 10-11 September 2014 
  • 2014. "Multilingualism and the LUCIDE network: any lessons for university language centres?", presentation at the  13th CercleS Conference, Fribourg, Switzerland, 4 - 6 September 2014
  • 2013. Discussion group leader 'Turkish as an international regional language in Europe' at the LUCIDE seminar 'The Multilingual City – challenges and solutions', 11- 12 September 2013, Varna Free University, Bulgaria
  • 2013. "Zum Einsatz elektronischer Korpora und Wörterbücher zur Wortschatzerweiterung im sozialwissenschaftlich orientierten DaF-Unterricht", presentation at the IDT 2013 the Conference of the International Organisation of Teachers of German, Bozen/Bolzano, Freie Universität Bozen, 29/7 to 3/8/2013
  • 2013. "Multilingualism in the Urban Space of London", presentation at the LUCIDE Workshop on Multilingualism and Urban Spaces, Athens, Municipality of Agioi Anargyroi – Kamatero, 23/5/2013
  • 2013. "Im Netz der Worte - lernerzentrierte Strategien zur Wortschatzerweiterung mit Hilfe elektronischer Korpora und Wörterbücher", presentation at the 4th Bremen Symposium 2013, Bremen, Fremdsprachenzentrum Bremen, 1-2 March 2013 
  • 2012. "Words, words, everywhere. Developing strategies for vocabulary expansion and retention", poster presentation at the 12th CercleS Conference, London, London School of Economics and Political Science, 6 - 8 September 2012
  • 2010. “Writer-reader interaction and the use of everyday academic language in German history writing and English translation”, Annual Meeting of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland, University of Reading, 29-31 March 2010

As editor/translator
  • 2015. Contribution to Ruth Levitt (ed.) Pogrom — November 1938: Testimonies from 'Kristallnacht', London: Souvenir Press. Texts available at http://wienerlibrarycollections.co.uk/novemberpogrom/home 
  • 2008. Translated article (English original by Matthew Jefferies), "Wilhelminischer Monumentalismus. Zur politischen und kulturellen Rolle der Architektur im Deutschen Kaiserreich", in Sven-Oliver Müller, Cornelius Torp (eds.) Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  • 2003. Schulwörterbuch Deutsch–Englisch, Englisch–Deutsch, Berlin und Munich: Langenscheidt
  • 2002. Englisch G 2000 Wörterbuch. Das Wörterbuch zum Lehrwerk, Berlin and Munich: Langenscheidt

Research awards & grants       
  • AHRC Postgraduate Award for Doctoral Study, 2003-2006
  • Teaching Fellowship from the Robert Bosch Foundation, 1999 - 2000, Lector in German Studies at the Silesian University, Karviná, Czech Republic
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship (1993-1994), Research student at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria