I am a Lecturer in Education specialising in English as an Additional Language (EAL), languages education, plurilingualism, disciplinary literacies and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). My work examines how learners’ multilingual and digital lifeworlds—particularly their extramural digital practices—can be integrated into effective classroom pedagogies to enhance pluriliteracies, strengthen minoritised languages such as Irish, and support equitable participation in disciplinary learning. I also contribute to research on AI-enhanced teaching and learning, including ethical frameworks for AI in language education and AI-mediated formative assessment in teacher education.

With over a decade of experience as a classroom practitioner and senior leader in challenging urban schools, I remain committed to addressing educational disadvantage and supporting social mobility. I am especially passionate about amplifying minority and intersectional student voices and exploring how inclusive, decolonial, and authenticity-driven pedagogies can reshape language education. My current projects include CLIL PE interventions, demolinguistic analyses of Spanish-speaking communities, research on extramural digital practices in Irish-medium education, and the development of survey instruments to measure learner motivation and AI literacies. I teach across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and collaborate widely with researchers, practitioners, and school communities to generate research-informed, practice-responsive innovation.

• English as an Additional Language across educational settings, with a particular focus on post-primary

• Educational sociolinguistics; multi-/pluri-/trans-lingualism as phenomenon and classroom practice

• Heritage Language Education and family language planning

• Languages education pedagogies and practice, including CLIL in non-ESL contexts

• Intersectional and sociocultural approaches to minority student identities and their implications for teaching

• Decolonisation of curricula and language teacher education

• Corpus-based approaches to languages education and research

• Initial Teacher Education from various perspectives