James Simpson

James Simpson lectures in Language Education at the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. His research interests span multilingualism and language education, and include adult migrant language education practice and policy and creative inquiry in applied linguistics. He is the co-author of ESOL: A Critical Guide (OUP, 2008, with Melanie Cooke), the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics (2011), and the co-editor of three further books. He is active in migrant language education policy formation nationally, regionally and locally. He was a Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘Translation and translanguaging’ (2014-2018).