I am Co-Editor of the high impact journal, Language Testing, alongside Professor Paula Winke. I previously served on the Editorial Boards of of this journal, Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement, The Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, and Language Assessment Quarterly.
I frequently serve as an ad hoc peer-reviewer. In addition to externally reviewing books, book or book series proposals or contributions to edited volumes (Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell), I have provided referee reports for journals in the following research areas:
Second language acquisition - Language Learning, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Canadian Modern Language Review
Language teaching - Language Teaching, System, TESOL Quarterly, TESL Canada Journal
Sociolinguistics - Applied Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Psycholinguistics - Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Speech sciences - Journal of Phonetics, Language and Speech
Medicine - International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, JMIR Cancer, JMIR Protocols, Journal of Communication in Healthcare, Trials
Educational assessment - Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
Databases: Online Resource for Recruitment research in Clinical triAls (ORRCA) - Full-text reviewer
I have reviewed research grants, prizes, and/or research reports for the following organizations and schemes:
British Council - Assessment Research Grants and Awards (ARAGs)
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Research Grants
European Commission - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Financement de la Recherche en Haute École (FRHE)
International Language Testing Association (ILTA) - Best Article Award; Robert Lado Memorial Award; Workshops and Meetings Award
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation (JSLP) - Best Paper Award
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Research for Patient Benefit programme
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Doctoral Awards
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - Spark Funding Scheme
I currently serve on my department's College of Reviewers, evaluating colleagues' peer-reviewed publications in preparation for the next Research Excellence Framework.
Research training & capacity building
Project funders: British Council (BC), Duolingo (DL), European Commission (EC), UCL Institute of Education (IoE), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP)
Co-investigators on funded projects which I am leading or have led: Zsófia Demjén, UCL (IoE); Andrea Révész, UCL (BC); Fiona Stevenson, UCL (IoE); Danijela Trenkic, York University, UK (DL); Pavel Trofimovich, Concordia University, Canada, (BC, SSHRC); Guoxing Yu, Bristol University, UK (BC)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ruolin Hu - predictive validity
Jamie Murdoch (now Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health, Kings College London) - corpus building
Louisa Edwards,Daniel Hunt (now Assistant Professor in Discourse Analysis, University of Nottingham) - systematic review
Research Assistants
Danielle Ward – second coding/bias analysis/data extraction
Linda Taschenberger, Shishi Zhang, Danni Shi, Aaron Holmberg - speech sample editing and analysis
Terra Sprague – Second Language Speech Lab management, website development;
Bernardita Munoz Chereau – data sorting, statistical analyses, results reporting
Garrett Byrne, David Collett, Matt Kedzierski (now Lecturer in Education, TESOL/Applied Linguistics, University of Bristol) Jane Nebe, Hassan Hassan Qutub, Sohaib Sandhu & Helen Tan – data collection/entry
Andrea Vaughan - systematic review
Sponsorship of Visiting Fellows
● Rikka Ullakonoja (funded by Academy of Finland Broken Finnish project), University of Jyväskylä, Finland
● Wang Hua, Assistant Professor, Shanxi University, China
● Aek Phakiti, Associate Professor in TESOL, University of Sydney, Australia
● Anna Piasecki, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the West of England, UK
● Kazuya Saito (previously at Waseda University, Japan), Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL, UCL, UK
● Ron Thomson (recipient of IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Award), Professor of Applied Linguistics, Brock University, Canada