Nicola Galloway is Professor of Applied Linguistics, with a specialisation in sociolinguistics and language teaching research, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Education.
Her research has included exploring attitudes towards the English language and in relation to English language teaching, Global Englishes, teaching English as an international language, and English Medium Instruction. Her work straddles applied linguistics and higher education studies.
Publications include a number of books on Global Englishes, including Introducing Global Englishes (Routledge), Global Englishes for Language Teaching (Cambridge), The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an international language ( Routledge), Teaching English as an International Language (Cambridge), Global Englishes and English Language Teaching (Routledge), and English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Higher Education in Practice (Bloomsbury). She has published widely in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Higher Education, including journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English as a Medium of Instruction, ELT Journal, International Journal of Language Studies, Language Teaching Research, System, Language Teaching, Higher Education, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, The RELC Journal and International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Nicola is the coordinator of the ELIPro network (Education, Languages and Internationalisation network). It partners with The University of Oxford EMI Research Group (http://www.emi.network/). With 100+ current partners around the globe and 18 global branches organised into various teams (research, resources, professional development, educational contexts and student/alumni), the network has fostered numerous grant proposals and publications, as well as annual conferences, a seminar series and various in-context events.
Nicola has undertaken consultancy for the British Council, University of Tokyo and National Cheng Kung University. She has undertaken advisory work for the Department for International Trade and several Ministries of Education (Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia). She was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship to work with The University of Tokyo and has acted as an opinion leader for British Council.