Exploring English Education

Such a brilliant opportunity for free, high quality CPD for English teachers 10/10 would recommend! #TeamEnglish

📢New book alert! A must-have for all PALAns - and beyond - interested in the immersive experience of reading! 🤩

A Level English teachers: don't miss the chance to book spaces for your class on our FREE English Language conference taking place on 27th June! A wonderful opportunity for your students to hear lectures from our fantastic academics @EnglishAston and experience a campus tour

All of our @EnglishAston student conferences are FREE! A great opportunity for those studying A level English Language.

‘Researching Stylistics’, written by members of the Aston Stylistics Research Group is now available for pre-order with a publication date of September 2025! routledge.com/Researching-St…

Very excited to be presenting some of my new cognitive stylistics of conspiracies research at #PALA2025

Excited to see the cover of my monograph for @BloomsburyAcad, to be published later this year!

across 563 school behaviour policies, i found that notions of 'misbehaviour' coalesce with a whole constellation of linguistic features. of course, these linguistic features are not empirically connected to 'misbehaviour', but they are strongly ideologically connected.

A Level English Language teachers: our FREE Year 12 conference on Friday 27th June @EnglishAston is open for booking! Your students will experience a range of fascinating lectures from our academics, plus a campus tour! Book tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/125955335097…

There’s an opportunity to work with @UnitedLearning in a Dorset-based academy which is really exciting ! Higher than average pay, and TLR opportunities in a high performing trust which values well-being! This is @Team_English1 based - please re-share!

My lovely UG student is investigating differences between GCSE & A-level English Lang curriculums & reasons for the decrease in students studying Eng Lang A-level. If you teach A Level students (of any subject) could you ask them to complete this survey? shorturl.at/ghgXI

In association with @EngMediaCentre - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (yes, really) for the UK’s first ever student conference for A-level Lang/Lit. Cheap as chips! And a great line up. Book here: englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with @EdinburghUP later in the year

Working on the final stages of our ASRG book for @RoutledgeLing today w/chapters on: parameters of stylistics; research design/ethics; narratological stylistics; cognitive stylistics; media stylistics; corpus stylistics; and educational stylistics. #stylistics #appliedlinguistics

📢📢FINAL CALL for proposals for #PALA2025 at Aston! Deadline TODAY!! (14th Feb. 2025) 📢📢.

In association with @EngMediaCentre - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (no, really) for our student conference for A-level Lang/Lit englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/18…

Got an idea for a 20-30k short monograph in any area of stylistics? We would love to hear from you! Get in touch to find out more about our ⁦⁦@CambUP_LangLing⁩ ‘Elements in Stylistics’ series. ⁦@PoeticsLinguist⁩ ⁦⁦@LitSemantics⁩ cambridge.org/core/publicati…

The Department for Education has recently issued a press release stating that Thousands of pupils are set to benefit from a £2 million investment in reading and writing, breaking down the barriers to opportunity. Read it here: buff.ly/4gtxxN9

This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @shefenglish Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/hea…

I'll be on @BBCRadio4 this afternoon at 3:30pm with @MichaelRosenYes on Word of Mouth talking about politeness - the new paperback version of my book Polite is about to hit the shops :-) @HachetteUK @welbeckpublish @UniofNottingham @UoNEnglish @UoNPressOffice

What is the future of a subject journal at the present time? What matters? My editorial in the early spring issue of English in Education: @NATEfeed tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…