I currently serve on the Editorial Boards of Language Testing and Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement, having previously served on the Editorial Boards of 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
Karen Bell, Danielle Ward – second coding/bias analysis/data extraction
Linda Taschenberger, Shishi Zhang, Danni Shi - 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, Merve Demiralp, Matt Kedzierski (now Lecturer in Education, TESOL/Applied Linguistics, University of Bristol) Jane Nebe, Hassan Qutub, Sohaib Sandhu & Helen Tan – data collection/entry
Andrea Vaughan - systematic review
Sponsorship of Visiting Fellows
● 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