Meet the Team

Prof Gail Forey

University of Bath

Professor Forey currently works as an Associate Dean and professor at the University of Bath, and has previously taught in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Hungary, and the UK. While in Hong Kong. Her published research relates to a wide range of contexts and subject areas, such as disciplinary literacy, systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, digital workplace communication, language education, pedagogy, teaching development and the explicit teaching of language for curriculum learning.

Her work has earned her numerous recognitions, particularly at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Her awards include the Faculty Award for Teaching in 2013, the President’s Award for Teaching in 2014, the Hong Kong University Teacher of the Year Award 2015, the Faculty’s Service Award 2017, and the PolyU’s Knowledge Transfer Award 2017.

Dr. Reka Ratkaine Jablonkai

University of Bath

Dr. Jablonkai currently works as a lecturer and MA TESOL dissertation supervisor at the University of Bath. She has taught, researched, and trained teachers in a number of higher education contexts, such as Hungary, Germany, Turkey, Lithuania, and the UK. Her research interests include areas such as Corpus-based discourse analysis, Corpora in English language teaching and Learning, English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific purposes, intercultural communication, and analysis of academic and professional discourse.

Reka also has expertise contributing work to several of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and is currently involved in projects involving health-related lexis in the British National Corpus (BNC) and superdiversity in the university classroom.

_{Dr Dana Therova}

University of Bath

Dana Therova is a Research Associate at the University of Bath. Her research interest is predominantly in the area of academic writing utilising the methodology of corpus linguistics. She has also been exploring the effectiveness of data-driven learning (DDL) drawing on self-compiled corpora and how this approach can be usefully implemented in wider English for Academic Purposes (EAP) settings to enhance students’ knowledge and productive use of disciplinary academic writing conventions across different disciplines and levels of academic study.

_{Dr David Beauchamp}

University of Bath

David Beauchamp has a long background in teaching and assessment, having worked for Cambridge Assessment’s Research Division and worked for many years as a language teacher overseas and in the UK. His PhD was gained from Coventry University and was a corpus and SFL analysis of institutional communications during the COVID pandemic. He now applies this academic and professional experience to the analysis of student writing as part of the research team for the BAWESS project at the University of Bath.

Other collaborators and team members include:

Natalie Cheers
Helen Handford