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
- English language strategy for Azerbaijan (Nov 2023-March 2025)
- Developing a teacher certification test for teachers of English in Sudan (Dec 2023-June 2024)
- Evaluation of the British Council’s English in Education programmes in four countries (Oct 2023-April 2024 – with TCE)
- Research into the CPD of in-service teacher educators in Nepal (Sep 2023-Jan 2024)
- Developing a CPD framework for English teachers in Kazakhstan (Sep 2023-March 2024)
- Evaluation of TEA CPD programme in Egypt (Jan-Jun 2023)
- Evaluation of the ‘English for the Community II’ project in Romania (July 2023)
- Evaluation of the PRELIM3 programme (Jan 2023-April 2024)
- Evaluation of the British Council’s English in Education programmes in seven countries (Oct 2022-May 2023 – with TCE)
- Evaluation of ‘Teaching for Success’ CPD programme for teachers of English in Iraq (May-July 2025)
- Revising pre-service teacher education curricula for English teachers in Iraq (Sep 2022-Mar 2025)
- Strategic review of the British Council’s Teacher Educator Development Support Programme (Feb-Jun 2023)
- Evaluation of the British Council’s ELTRA scheme (Nov 2022-Mar 2023)
- Professional inquiry for foreign language teachers in higher education (Jul 2022-Mar 2023)
- Review of pre-service teacher education in Iraq (Sep 2022-Mar 2023)
- Research into the status of teacher education and development in Nepal (Aug 2022-Feb 2023)
- Evaluation of professional development through Teacher Activity Groups in Vietnam (Jan 2022-Apr 2023)
- Research into secondary ELT in Kazakhstan (Oct 2022-Feb 2023)
- Evaluation of an online language teacher community in six countries in Wider Europe (Mar-Apr 2022)
- Research into CPD for teachers of English in Japan, Korea and China (Oct 2021-Jun 2022)
- Evaluation of professional development programme for teachers of English in Yemen (Jan-Apr 2022)
- Review of English in Basic Education in India (Nov 2021-Mar 2022)
- Evaluation of the COELT in-service teacher education programme in South Africa (Sep 2021-Mar 2022)
- Case studies of the impact of COVID on language teacher education (July-Sep 2021)
- Scoping Study: Understanding English Language Teaching and Learning for Children and Young Adults in Iraq (Sep-Dec 2021)
- Using Video-Based Observation in Monitoring & Evaluation (Dec 2020-Mar 2021)