Dr Niall Curry FRSA SFHEA, Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics within the Department of Languages, Information, and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research spans various topics in applied linguistics, including contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English-medium instruction, second language acquisition, and systemic functional linguistics. He serves as Co-Editor of the Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics series and contributes to the Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics as a Section Editor. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Dr Curry’s research has received funding from organizations such as UKRI and the King Sejong Institute Foundation. After completing a PhD at the University of Limerick in 2020, he worked at Cambridge University Press as a Senior Research Manager before joining MMU as a lecturer. His current research focuses on language related to global crises, such as climate, health, and economics, exploring how knowledge is constructed across different contexts and cultures. Additionally, he conducts research on language pedagogy, TESOL materials development, and digital pedagogies. He supervises students in areas such as contrastive linguistics, corpus studies, academic discourse, and the language of global crises.

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