I have been a researcher in applied linguistics for over 10 years. My special research interest is corpus linguistics, specifically keyword analysis which was also the topic of my PhD. Based on my PhD research, two of the co-authored papers with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Richard Watson Todd are Log-likelihood and odds ratio: Keyness statistics for different purposes of keyword analysis and The influence of the benchmark corpus on keyword analysis. In addition to keyness, I enjoy doing (and have published) research in a range of topics relating to academic language, English language teaching and learning, and teacher professional development with the application of corpus methods in recent work. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn and expand my knowledge in such a wide variety of areas and this is a privilege of being a researcher.