Phil has been teaching English to international students since 1995 at various universities and language centres overseas and in the UK. Much of his time abroad was spent in South East Asia and the Middle East. In addition to teaching, Phil later worked as an IELTS examiner and managed course development projects at the British Council in Malaysia.
He returned to the UK permanently in 2019, taking up an In-sessional tutor role at the University for Creative Arts in Kent, before joining CALD in 2021 as an EAP tutor, teaching on their IFP, Pre-sessional and In-sessional programmes.
His main research interest is the role of emotional literacy in online language learning and (more recently) the use of emotional check-ins as a tool for resolving student issues.