As a consultant, I draw on my strong academic background and extensive international experience in language education to help organisations:
- analyse the status of English language teaching
- enhance the competence of teachers
- design and deliver teacher education and development programmes
- evaluate the impact of such progammes
- formulate or review teacher education and development policy
- implement educational reform and innovation
- carry out high quality research
- communicate research findings effectively.
Please contact me if your organisation is interested in consultancy support in these areas.
Current and Recent Consultancies
- Developing a CPD framework for English teachers in Kazakhstan (2023-26)
- Revising pre-service teacher education curricula for English teachers in Iraq (2022-26)
- Review of ‘Courses for teachers’ Facebook teacher community (2025)
- Using teacher activity groups to prromote multilingual practices Vietnam (2024-25 – for Sheffield Hallam University)
- Evaluation of TEA CPD programme in Egypt (2023-25)
- English language strategy for Azerbaijan (2023-25)
- Evaluation of the ‘English for Iraqi Schools’ CPD programme (2025)
- Evaluation of ‘Teaching for Success’ CPD programme for teachers of English in Iraq (2025)
- Developing a teacher certification test for teachers of English in Sudan (2023-24)
- Evaluation of the British Council’s English in Education programmes in 11 countries (2022-24 – with TCE)
- Research into the CPD of in-service teacher educators in Nepal (2023-24)
- Evaluation of the ‘English for the Community II’ project in Romania (2023)
- Evaluation of the PRELIM3 programme (2023-24)
- Strategic review of the British Council’s Teacher Educator Development Support Programme (2023 – with Daniel Xerri )
- Evaluation of the British Council’s ELTRA scheme (2022-23 – with TCE)
- Professional inquiry for foreign language teachers at University at Ruhr-University (2022-23)
- Research into the status of teacher education and development in Nepal (2022-23)
- Evaluation of professional development through Teacher Activity Groups in Vietnam (2022-23 – forr University of Glasgow)
- Research into secondary ELT in Kazakhstan (2022-23)
- Evaluation of an online language teacher community in six countries in Wider Europe (2022)
- Research into CPD for teachers of English in Japan, Korea and China (2021-22 – with Trinity College London)
- Evaluation of professional development programme for teachers of English in Yemen (2022)
- Review of English in Basic Education in India (2021-22)
- Evaluation of the COELT in-service teacher education programme in South Africa (2021-22)
- Case studies of the impact of COVID on language teacher education (2021)
- Scoping Study: Understanding English Language Teaching and Learning for Children and Young Adults in Iraq (2021-22 – with Tony Capstick)
- Using Video-Based Observation in Monitoring & Evaluation (2020-21)