I've worked in many aspects of English Language Teaching for over 25 years as a teacher, a Director of Studies, in teacher training, as a materials writer/developer and course book author. I have also been an examiner for Cambridge ESOL, Pitman Examinations, LCCI and ARELS. I am particularly interested in reading skills development, computer assisted and online learning resources and self-access learning. I was responsible for establishing a self-access listening centre and an independent self-access reading centre within a large language school.

Latterly, I've worked as one of the partners in ELB Brighton, a specialist ELT book supplier to schools, colleges, universities, teachers, students and bookshops around the world. This has enabled me to undertake more freelance writing and publishing projects and develop personal interests & skills.

Most of the recent writing projects I've been involved in have been undertaken with a long-standing co-author - Alison Savage. Alison is Deputy Director of the Educational Liaison Centre at the University of Surrey. We are currently working on an ESOL proposal provisionally called Framework for English which we are discussing with a number of potential publishers.

I am particularly interested in computers in education and computer applications. I am a proficient user of Macintosh computers - iBookPro, iMac, OSX and Mac applications, Pages, Word, Excel, Dreamweaver, Rapidweaver, QuarkXpress etc.