Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Cambridge University Press journal English Language and Linguistics.

Shortlisted for Provost's Spirit of Enterprise Award (with Ian Cushing and Sean Wallis).

Shortlisted for the Provost’s Spirit of Enterprise Award, UCL.

Elected a member of the Council of the Philological Society, the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages.

Member of the Government’s Standards and Testing Agency’s Test Review Group at the Department for Education advising on the Professional Skills Tests for prospective teachers in literacy. Member of the Government’s Standards and Testing Agency Test Review Group for English Grammar at the Department for Education.

Referee for many book proposals and manuscripts (Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Edinburgh University Press, Rodopi), journal articles and research projects submitted to the research councils (Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, National Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust). I have also assessed conference abstracts on a number of occasions.

17 plenary lectures in the UK and abroad since 1998.

Acted as Chair of the Revalidation Panel for the Open University’s Centre for Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships (CICP) with regard to the BA (Hons.) English at the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), Greece, 2016.

I have acted as External Examiner for MA and PhD programmes both in the UK and abroad.

I have held visiting appointments at the following universities: La Laguna, Spain (1997); Sofia, Bulgaria (1998); Zürich, Switzerland (1999); Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2000); Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001); Jaén, Spain (2004, 2005, 2006); Vigo, Spain (2007), Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (2010). During the summer of 2007 I taught at the summer school of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Campobasso, Italy.