Aisling O'Boyle

Aisling O'Boyle is a Senior Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast's School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work. She serves as Director of the Centre for Language Education Research and previously held leadership roles such as MSc TESOL Course Director (2006-2017) and Director of Internationalization (2018-2022). Her research focuses on multilingual education contexts, corpus linguistics, and dialogue-based knowledge construction. She has led projects on topics including Irish-medium education, gender equity in language teaching, and migration-related language education.

• Research Interests: Language education, applied corpus studies, multilingualism, gender studies, and educational policy
• Teaching Roles: MSc TESOL modules, PGCE Elective on linguistically diverse students, Open Learning course for refugees/asylum seekers
• Leadership: Centre for Language Education Research Director since 2022

Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education) and 5 (Gender Equality). Recent projects include investigations into additional competences of Irish-medium practitioners and language trends in Wales/Scotland.

• Awards: 2021 Fredrik & Catherine Eaton Fellowship, 2024 Landmark Futures Scheme, 2014 Teaching Excellence Award

Current projects involve analyzing language provision in further education and exploring gender equity in English language teaching internationally. She has supervised doctoral researchers in areas like EAP, resilience in language learners, and multimodal teaching methods.