Richard Zhonghua Xiao

Education

01.2000 - 09.2002 PhD of Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University

09.1988 - 06.1991 MA of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Hohai University / Nanjing Normal University

09.1984 - 07.1988 BA of English Language and Literature at Soochow University

Professional Development

1996 HEI Teaching Qualification, Education Committee of Zhejiang Province, China

2008 Teaching Toolkit, University of Central Lancashire

2010 PG Cert Research Degree Supervision, Edge Hill University

Employment

08.2012 - Lecturer of Chinese Linguistics, Lancaster University.

09.2008 - 07.2012 Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of English and Chinese Studies, Edge Hill University

09.2007 - 08.2008 Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Central Lancashire

09.2007 - 07.2012 Associate researcher, Lancaster University

01.2003 - 08.2007 Research Associate, Lancaster University

10.2001 - 12.2002 Research Assistant, Lancaster University

05.1993 - 12.1999 Lecturer of English, Ningbo University

07.1991 - 05.1993 Associate Lecturer of English, North China Institute of Hydraulic Power

Esteem indicators

I am on the Editorial Boards of following international journals and book series:

Chinese Language and Discourse

Corpora

Foreign Language Learning: Theory and Practice

Glossa

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Languages in Contrast

The Corpus-Based Translation Studies book series (Shanghai Jiaotong University Press)

I am a member of the Standing Council of the Corpus Linguistics Society of China

I have been an assessor for the following research councils

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, UK)

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK)

National Science Foundation (NSF, USA)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal)

Research Grants Council (RGC, Hong Kong)

I have been an external assessor for academic reappointment in Chinese linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

I have reviewed book proposals for the following publishers:

Routledge

Palgrave Macmillan

I have regularly reviewed submissions the following journals

Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press)

Australian Journal of Linguistics (Taylor & Francis)

Corpora (Edinburgh University Press)

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (de Gruyter)

Foreign Language Learning: Theory and Practice

GLOSSA

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (John Benjamins)

Issues in Applied Linguistics (UCLA)

Intercultural Pragmatics (de Gruyter)

JALT Journal (The Japan Association for Language Teaching)

Journal of Languages and Culture (Academic Journals)

Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier)

Languages in Contrast (John Benjamins)

Language Learning (Blackwell)

Lingua (Elsevier)

Linguistics (de Gruyter)

Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press)

Modern Language Journal (Blackwell)

Studies in Language (John Benjamins)

Target (John Benjamins)

TESL Canada Journal (TESL Canada)

World Englishes (Blackwell)

I have organized the first international symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS2008).

I have organized the second international symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS 2010).

I have given keynote and invited talks at numerous international conferences (see the Publication section).

I am on the programme committees of or have been invited to review abstracts for

CHRONOS 8 International Conference on Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Modality (The University of Texas at Austin, October 2008)

Corpus Linguistics 2009 (University of Liverpool, July 2009)

AACL 2009 - American Association for Corpus Linguistics (Alberta, October 2009)

RANLP-09 Workshop on NLP Methods and Corpora in Translation, Lexicography, and Language Learning (Borovets, September 2009)

CHRONOS 10th international conference on tense, aspect, modality and evidentiality (Aston, April 2011)

International Conference on Chinese Language Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age (Hong Kong, 25-27th November 2011)

Corpus Linguistics in China 2011 (Beijing, 19-20th November 2011)

Corpus linguistics: technologies for language research, teaching and learning (Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 28-30 June 2012)

National Conference on Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS) 2012 (Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 31st March-2nd April 2012)

Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora (Brussels, 11-12 January 2013)

Joint conference of the 3rd meeting of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS3) and the 7th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC7) (Ghent, 10th-13th July 2013)

I am currently the External Examiner for the Chinese strand of the postgraduate programmes MRes in Translation Studies and the MSc in Translation Studies with TESOL at the University of Stirling, and for MA Chinese/English/Chinese Translating and Interpreting at Salford University.

I have examined PhD theses and registration proposals

PhD External Examiner, The University of Manchester

PhD External Examiner, The University of Western Australia

PhD External Examiner, SOAS, London University

PhD registration examiner, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Central Lancashire

PhD registration examiner, Edge Hill University