I am currently working on the "Disciplinary Literacy & Corpus-Based Pedagogy: The BAWESS (British Academic Written English Secondary School) Corpus" - BAWESS Project for short, The BAWESS Project focuses on disciplinary literacy and language patterns found in writing during the secondary school exam years. Currently, I am willing to take on PhD students who are interested in studying:

• Language and Education - disciplinary literacy and the explicit teaching of language for curriculum learning, register, language patterns when writing during the exam years in secondary school.
• Pedagogy - genre based pedagogy and educational theory related to the language of schooling.
• Language analysis- discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and corpus analysis of disciplinary literacy texts.

Gail has carried out research and published in the areas of written, spoken and digital workplace communication, systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, language education and teaching development. She is currently involved in research related to classroom discourse, disciplinary literacy, pedagogy, the explicit teaching of language for curriculum learning and digital global workplace communication focusing on the role of language in this emerging field.

Before joining Bath University, Gail taught in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Hungary, and the UK. In Hong Kong, Gail worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), where she was Associate Head of the Department, Programme Leader for the Master of Arts in English Language Teaching and the Doctor of Applied Language Sciences. During her time at PolyU, Gail received the Faculty Award for Teaching 2013, the President’s Award for Teaching 2014 and the Hong Kong University Teacher of the Year Award 2015, the Faculty's Service Award 2017, and the PolyU's Knowledge Transfer Award 2017.