I am Professor of English Language and Communications and Chair of the Department of Communication and Fine Arts at Richmond, the American International University in London. Our university has students from over 100 different countries and it's working in this kind of cultural diversity which informs both my research and my teaching. For example, I am the Editor of the international journal Language and Intercultural Communication.

I was born in Australia and did my undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Bristol and the Institute of Education, University of London. My work is rooted in my background in language education, commercial training, higher education and intercultural communication studies. I have given papers about this work as far afield as Cairo, Seattle, China and Mongolia.

I started using computers in teaching academic writing in the 1980s and since then have had a growing sense that a critical use of CMC can help in developing each student's individual 'voice'. I also believe strongly that an exploration of the nature of cultural identities, the frontiers between languages, and the shifting borders between cultures, can provide a valuable contribution to international dialogue and collaboration.