Centre for Corpus Research, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham (UK)
Brief info
Paul worked at the University of Birmingham from September 2009 to August 2026. He is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Communication. His main interest is applied corpus linguistics, particularly in the area of specialised discourses. He is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Corpus Linguistics journal (Elsevier).
He took up the post of Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at Birmingham in September 2009, after working for thirteen years as a lecturer in EAP/Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. He had taught English language and literature in Kenya (one year) and Japan (fourteen years) before moving to Reading in 1996 to do doctoral research.
He worked as a Co-Investigator with Professor Hilary Nesi on both the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) and the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus projects.