Maxine is Director of the Centre for Academic Language and Development.
Her previous role was Deputy Director of the Centre, and before that, she was a course coordinator. In August 2014, she was awarded a University Teaching Fellowship to explore the possibilities of extending the Academic Language and Literacy provision to all students: ALL for all!
Her interests lie in the field of the internationalisation of Higher Education, academic literacies, teacher development, alternative assessment and vocabulary acquisition. She was Chair of BALEAP from 2016-2019 and completed her EdD in International Education at the University of Bath in 2021.