Dr Fei Xie PhD, AFHEA

• PhD in English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK (2023)
• MSc in TESOL, University of Edinburgh, UK (2017)
• BA in English Language and Literature, Tianjin University of Technology, China (2016)

Dr Xie commenced her PhD in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Birmingham in 2019. Since 2023, she has served as a Research Associate and Research Fellow on multiple projects, focusing on corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics and community safety issues. Through these roles, she has contributed to interdisciplinary research that bridges language analysis and real-world applications.

She teaches second language learning in MSc TESOL programme

Dr Xie’s research focuses on applying corpus linguistics (particularly learner corpus research) in the second language teaching/learning and materials development. Also, she interested in using corpus linguistics to analyse community safety issues.

• Reviewer, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching
• Member of Learner Corpus Association
• Reviewer, 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies in 2024
• Session Chair, Graduate Student Conference in Learner Corpus Research 2023