Almost at the end of the international summer school being held at the University of Prizren, Kosovo. I'm enjoying the experience of mentoring a lovely group of students enrolled on a course focusing on digital tools and interactive learning in the English classroom.

Newly published study on mentoring presidents within English language teacher associations. Thanks to the participants for sharing their experiences, and the guest editors of the Special Issue that this open access article forms part of.

How to partner with AI to engage with educational research. This is the recording of the @BCouncilEnglish webinar held last week.

Newly published article in The Use of English. This is the first piece based on the ideas I shared in my IATEFL plenary earlier this year. Download a copy:

In the @iatefl BESIG Conference Selections you can find an interview and an article stemming from my plenary on change and adaptability. 🎤 Interview: 💻 Article:

There were 825 participants in today's webinar on AI-facilitated critical engagement with published research. I really enjoyed contributing to the panel discussion by talking about four key competencies:

On 8 July at 12.00 (UK time), the @BritishCouncil is organising a webinar on how educators can partner with AI in a critical manner. We will be discussing the role of criticality in AI-assisted engagement with information.

It’s been a long but deeply rewarding day!.A new group of novice speakers has just completed the ELT Council’s ‘How to Become a Speaker at an ELT Conference’ programme by delivering a talk or workshop in front of a live audience. 🎤 What a milestone!

Delivering a plenary at the @iatefl Conference in Edinburgh earlier this year is an experience I will long cherish. In the latest issue of Voices there is a review of the plenary penned by Hannah Tucker-Bloom. Plenary recording:

I enjoyed delivering a plenary on adaptability at the conference organised by ILCA. It was a great few days in Malaga. Thank you to Fernanda Freytes Ramos for the visual summary of my talk, and to Ian King for the photo

RT @DrSarahOlive: Poetry as a bridge between speaking & writing; as a scavenger of language; as portable 💼. It reminded me of my first PhD….

Some photos from the plenary and two workshops I delivered today at the well-organized Kosova English Teachers' Network annual conference. Thanks to all the enthusiastic teachers who attended my sessions and the @BritishCouncil for making it possible.

Later this week I'll be doing the opening plenary (and two workshops) at the annual conference organised by the Kosova English Teachers' Network. It's my first time in Kosovo, so I hope to do some sightseeing in Pristina. Thanks to the @BritishCouncil for sponsoring my visit.

This month’s issue of EL Gazette has a special supplement on Malta. It also has a review of the IATEFL Conference mentioning my plenary on classroom research. Thanks for your kind words, Virginia Dooley!.

Why does creativity stall in schools, and what can leaders do about it? This piece in @ModEngTeacher explores the internal and external factors limiting innovation in private language schools and challenges common myths about creativity.

I'm looking forward to speaking to students at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza this Saturday. I'm sure there's a lot I can learn from the questions they're interested in investigating.

I'm pleased to share this open access article in which I review four recent volumes that invite us to reshape how we think about language teacher education. #LanguageEducation #TeacherEducation #AppliedLinguistics #SocialJustice #TeacherIdentity

A brief article based on the plenary I gave last year at the conference organized by the Associação Portuguesa de Professores de Inglês has just been published (pp. 9-18). Thanks to Carlos Lindade and the rest of the editorial team.

This time last week I was about to start my #IATEFL2025 plenary on classroom research. If you haven’t watched it yet, you can do so here (starts at 10.15): .

I’m pleased to share this newly published open access article. It is the first in a series of forthcoming research publications on the relationship between generative AI and writing instruction.