Teaching/Advising

I work and publish on practices related to pedagogy, specifically active learning and ungrading in linguistics.

Starting 2025-26, Rory Turnbull and I will serve as co-editors of Innovations in Linguistics Education.

Change my mind meme, reading: "Coursework should be either self-assessed or skills-based grading. Change my mind"

Here are some slides from a recent talk on treating teaching as research, here are my York slides on assessment in linguistics, here are my LAGB 2024 slides on teaching linguistics, here’s the recording of a recent talk, here are some slides from an event on ungrading we held in January 2023 (internal link to recording for UoE users), and a here’s a write-up of my colleague rashné limki’s presentation. Some slides from a very short talk on self assessment in programming are available here.

At Edinburgh I’m usually Course Organiser and/or an instructor on:

  • LEL2A: Linguistic theory and the structure of English (Semester 1). The syntax component of this course is taught using skills-based grading.
  • Morphology (Semester 2). You can find the LAGB 2023 slides about this course here and the materials here. Feel free to get in touch with questions or comments.

In summer 2022 I taught an Introductory Course on The logical form of lexical semantics at ESSLLI.

Screencap of Nelly from the Great British Bake Off: "But you know what, it's not to teach them win, it's to teach them enjoy"Here is a blog post that Rebekka Puderbaugh and I contributed to the university’s Teaching Matters blog in August 2022, and here’s one with Charlotte Desvages from September 2024.

If you’d like to apply for a PhD with me (or anyone else at LEL), or if you’d like to apply for a visiting student position, please read this advice first.