Dr Jim McKinley is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and associate professor of applied linguistics and TESOL at UCL Institute of Education, University of London. He has taught in higher education in the UK, Japan, Australia and Uganda, as well as in US schools. His research focuses on the intersection of applied linguistics and the internationalisation of higher education, targeting implications of globalisation for second language (academic and scholarly) writing, English medium instruction, and the teaching–research nexus in higher education. Jim has published in many leading journals in applied linguistics and higher education, and he is an editor and author of several books on research methods in applied linguistics. He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, and is currently co-editor-in-chief of the journal System and co-editor of the ‘Cambridge Elements’ series Language Teaching, published by Cambridge University Press.