Deborah C. Darling

Deborah C. Darling is a part-time Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. She has over two decades of teaching experience across international contexts, including roles at the University of Helsinki and institutions in Australia, Spain, and the UK. Her academic qualifications include a BA, MA, MSc, and PhD, complemented by advanced teacher training certifications (CELTA, CELTYL, DELTA). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and actively engages in university pedagogy courses.

• Education: BA, MA, MSc, PhD (institutions unspecified).
• Teacher Training: CELTA (Australia), CELTYL (Spain), DELTA (UK).

Her research focuses on conversation analysis, discourse analysis, interculturality, language ideologies, and plurilingual pedagogies. Current projects include a corpus-based study on Cornish language legitimacy (collaborating with FORTHEM Multilingualism Lab) and the Coco-Ed project (funded by GINTL), addressing hybrid teaching in Ghana. She regularly reviews for journals like Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development and Intercultural Education.

Debbie’s teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including Language and Health Communication and Methods of Text and Corpus Analysis. She co-authored a framework for embedding interculturality in language courses and has published widely on multilingualism in universities. Her work emphasizes the role of language policies and inclusive pedagogical strategies.

• Key Projects: Cornish language legitimacy study (2025–present), Coco-Ed hybrid teaching initiative (2024).

She supervises doctoral candidates, including Wang Xiaocheng’s research on gender ideologies in language learning. Public engagement includes blogs on Cornish language challenges and invited talks on inclusive language use in higher education.