I am willing to take on PhD students working in the area of:

• Language analysis- discourse analysis & systemic functional linguistics
• Language and Education - disciplinary literacy and the explicit teaching of language for curriculum learning
• Pedagogy - genre based pedagogy
• Workplace communication - globalisation and language in the workplace, offshore outsourcing and the role of language, artificial intelligence and language

Gail has carried out research and published in the areas of written and spoken workplace discourse, 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 workplace communication focusing on offshore outsourcing and 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.