Education and qualifications
1967 - 1971: BA McGill University, Montreal, Canada
1971 - 1973: MPhil National University of Ireland
1973 - 1979: DPhil Oxford University
1985 - 1987: MSc Computing Science, University of Newcastle

Appointments
1974 - 1977: Tutor, Oriel College Oxford
1978 - 1979: Lecturer, Department of English, Leicester University
1980 - 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of English Language, University of Newcastle
1993 - 2013:  Associate Professor, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, University of  Newcastle
2013 - 2014:  Professor, School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, University of  Newcastle

Publications

  Books

• (2015) Moisl, H. Cluster Analysis for Corpus Linguistics, de Gruyter
• (2007) Beal, J., Corrigan, K., Moisl, H. (eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Synchronic Databases, Palgrave Macmillan
• (2007) Beal, J., Corrigan, K., Moisl, H. (eds.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Diachronic Databases, Palgrave Macmillan
• (2000) Dale, R., Moisl, H., Somers, H. Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Marcel Dekker
• (1999) Moisl, H. Lordship and Tradition in Barbarian Europe, Edwin Mellen

  Digital resources

• The Diachronic Corpus of Tyneside English (with Joan Beal, Isabelle Buchstaller, Karen Corrigan)
• The Peter Grzybek Memorial Archive of Slavic Studies Publications (with Emmerich Kelih)
• The Altmann - Köhler Quantitative Linguistics Archive (with Emmerich Kelih)

Articles and book chapters

• Moisl, H. (2023) Intrinsic Lexical Intentionality and the Mathematics of Homomorphism, OBM Neurobiology 2023;7(1):18; doi:10.21926/obm.neurobiol.2301152
• Moisl, H. (2022) Dynamical systems implementation of intrinsic sentence meaning, Minds and Machines 32 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11023-022-09590-1.
• Moisl, H. (2022) Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data, in: Language and Text. Data, models, information and applications, by Pawlowski, Adam, Jan Macutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros (eds.) John Benjamins
• Moisl, H. (2021) Implementation of intrinsic natural language lexical intentionality, Academia Letters 2021
• Moisl, H. (2020) Cluster analysis. In: A practical handbook of corpus linguistics, ed. Magali Paquot & Stefan Th. Gries, Springer, 401-434.
• Moisl, H. (2020) How to visualize high-dimensional data: a roadmap, Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics, jdmdh.episciences.org/7021
• Moisl, H. (2020) Intrinsic Intentionality and Linguistic Meaning: An Historical Outline. In: Words and Numbers. In Memory of Peter Grzybek (1957-2019), ed. Emmerich Kelih & Reinhard Köhler, RAM-Verlag, 148-166.
• Moisl, H. & Kehlih, E. (2020) The Peter Grzybek Memorial Archive of Slavic Studies Publications . In: Words and Numbers. In Memory of Peter Grzybek (1957-2019), ed. Emmerich Kelih & Reinhard Köhler, RAM-Verlag, 216-218.
• (2017) Moisl, H., Flodibor rex Francorum, in: Crossing Boundaries. Interdisciplinary approaches to art, material culture, language, and literature of the early medieval world, ed. Cambridge, E., and Hawkes, J., Oxbow Books
• (2014) Moisl, H., Corrigan, K., Mearns, A., Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English, in: Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis, ed. Szmrecsanyi, B. and Wälchli, B., De Gruyter
• (2013) Moisl, H., Measurement of nonlinear distance in data derived from linguistic corpora, in: Methods and Applications of Quantitative Linguistics. Selected Papers of the 8th International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics (Qualico 2012), Belgrade, Serbia, 172-83
• (2012) Moisl, H., Mapping phonetic variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, in: Synergetic Linguistics. Text and Language as Dynamic Systems. To Reinhard Köhler on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, Praesens, 135-48
• (2011) Moisl, H., Finding the minimum document length for reliable clustering of multi-document natural language corpora, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 18, 23-52
• (2010) Moisl H., Beal J., Corrigan K. The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Annotation Practices and Dissemination Strategies. In: Durand, J., Gut, U. & Kristofferson, G., (ed.) Handbook of Corpus Phonology, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• (2010) Moisl, H., Statistical Corpus Exploitation. In: Durand, J., Gut, U., Kristofferson, G., ed. Handbook of Corpus Phonology, Oxford: Oxford University Press
• (2010) Moisl. H.,Variable scaling in cluster analysis of linguistic data, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 6
• (2010) Moisl, H. Hypothesis Generation, In: Analysing Variation in English: What we know, what we don't, and why it matters, ed. A. McMahon & W. Maguire, Cambridge University Press
• (2009) Moisl, H. Using electronic corpora in historical dialectology research: the problem of document length variation, In:  M. Dossena & R. Lass, (ed.) Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology, Bern:Peter Lang
• (2009) Moisl H., Exploratory Multivariate Analysis, In: Lüdeling A., Kytö M., (ed.) Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 874-99
• (2009) Moisl, H., Sura length and lexical probability estimation in cluster analysis of the Qur'an, Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing 8
• (2008) Moisl, H., Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity, In: Tsiplakou, S., Karyolemu, M., Pavlou, P. (ed.) Language Variation. European Perspectives, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 169-178
• (2008) Moisl H., Maguire W., Identifying the Main Determinants of Phonetic Variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15, 46-69
• (2007) Moisl H., Beal J., Corrigan K., Taming Digital Voices and Texts: models and methods for handling unconventional diachronic corpora, In: Beal, J., Corrigan, K., Moisl, H., (ed.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Diachronic Databases, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-15
• (2007) Moisl H., Allen W., Beal J., Corrigan K., Maguire W., A linguistic 'time capsule': The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, In: Moisl H., Beal J., Corrigan K., (ed.) Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Diachronic Databases, Palgrave Macmillan,  16-48
• (2006) Moisl, H., Maguire W., Allen W., Phonetic variation in Tyneside: exploratory multivariate analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, In: F. Hinskens (ed.) Language Variation. European Perspectives, Amsterdam: Meertens Institute
• (2006) Moisl, H., Language, literacy, and cultural development in early medieval England and Ireland, In: Bremer, E., Jarnut, J., Richter, M., Wasserstein, D. (ed.) Language of Religion - Language of the People: Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag
• (2005) Moisl, H., Jones, V., Cluster analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods, Literary and Linguistic Computing 20
• (2003) Moisl, H., Artificial neural networks and natural language processing, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, ed. M. Drake, Marcel Dekker
• (2002) Moisl, H., A Frankish aristocrat at the battle of Mag Rath, In: Ogma. Essays in Celtic Studies in honour of Proinsias Ni Chathain, Four Courts Press, 36-47
• (2001) Moisl, H., Linguistic computation with state space trajectories', In: Emergent Neural Computational Architectures based on Neuroscience, ed. S. Wermter, J. Austin, D. Willshaw, Springer
• (2001) Moisl, H., Celtic Religion, In: Concise Encyclopedia of Language and Religion, ed. J. Simpson & J. Sawyer, Elsevier
• (2000) Moisl, H., NLP Based on Artificial Neural Networks: Introduction, In: Handbook of Natural Language Processing, ed. R. Dale, H.Moisl & H. Somers, Marcel Dekker, 655-713
• (1997) Moisl, H., Recurrent neural networks and natural language processing, In: New Methods in Language Processing, ed. D. Jones & H. Somers, UCL Press, 69-82
• (1994) Moisl, H., Artificial Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing, In: Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 55, ed. A. Kent, Marcel Dekker, 1-41
• (1993) Moisl, H., Celtic Religion, In: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R. Asher, Pergamon
• (1992) Moisl, H., Connectionist finite state natural language processing, Connection Science 4, 67 - 91
• (1991) Moisl, H., Early Irish Grammarians, In: Language: usage and description, ed. I. Tieken-Boon & J. Frankis, Amsterdam, 27 - 36
• (1987) Moisl, H., The Church and the native tradition of learning in early medieval Ireland, In: Irland und die Christenheit, ed. M. Richter & P. Ni Chathain, Stuttgart, 258 - 271
• (1985) Moisl, H., Das Kloster Iona und seine Verbindungen mit dem Kontinent im siebenten und achten Jahrhundert, In: Virgil von Salzburg, ed. H. Dopsch & R. Juffinger, Salzburg, 27 - 37
• (1985)Moisl, H., Kingship and orally transmitted Stammestradition among the Lombards and Franks, In: Die Bayern und ihre Nachbarn, ed. H. Wolfram & A. Schwarcz, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften 179, 111 - 120,
• (1983) Moisl, H., The Bernician royal dynasty and the Irish in the seventh century, Peritia 2, 103 - 126
• (1981) Moisl, H., Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies and Germanic oral tradition, Journal of Medieval History 7, 215 - 248
• (1981) Moisl, H., A sixth-century reference to the British bardd, The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 29, 269 - 273
• (1980) Moisl, H., Celto-Germanic *watu- / *wotu- and early Germanic poetry, Notes and Queries 27, 98-9

• (2008) Moisl, H., Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora, Proceedings of INFOS2008: 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, Cairo University, 27-29 March 2008
• (2007) Moisl H., Data nonlinearity in exploratory multivariate analysis of language corpora, In: J. Nerbonne, T. Ellison, G. Kondrak, (ed.) Computing and Historical Phonology : Proceedings of the Ninth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, Association for Computational Linguistics, 93-100
• (2001) Moisl, H., Corpus analysis and results visualization using self-organizing maps, Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2001, University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, Technical Papers 13, University of Lancaster
• (1986) Moisl, H., Kingship and law in early Ireland, Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, 293 - 296

• (2005) Moisl H. & Jones, V., Cluster analysis of the Newcastle electronic corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology [CTIT], TR 2005/65) {A-53328}, University of Twente
• (1997) Moisl, H., Implementation of natural language semantics in an ANN-based natural language processing system, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 4, 36-49
• (1994) Moisl H., Recurrent artificial neural networks and finite state natural language processing, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 9-16
• (1993) Moisl H., Implementation of Natural Language Processing Automata in Artificial Neural Networks, Newcastle and Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 1, 206-229

Conference papers and other presentations

• (2018) Topological mapping for visualisation of high-dimensional historical linguistic data, 10th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference(QUALICO 2018), University of Wroclaw, Poland.
• (2018) How to visualize high-dimensional data: a roadmap, 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL XX), Edinburgh Univedrsity, UK.
• (2016) The Mathematics of Meaning, 9th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference(QUALICO 2016), University of Trier, Trier, Germany.
• (2014) Sentence semantics, word meaning, and nonlinear dynamics, 9th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference (QUALICO 2014), Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• (2013) Hierarchical cluster analysis of nonlinear linguistic data, Corpus Linguistics 2013, UCREL, University of Lancaster, UK.
• (2012) Hierarchical cluster analysis of nonlinear linguistic data, 8th International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics (QUALICO 2012), University of Belgrade, Serbia.
• (2011) Phonetic Variation in Tyneside English: A Diachronic Analysis of the 'Goat' Vowel, Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario.
• (2011) The Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Issues of preservation and public engagement, Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario.
• (2011) Plenary speaker, 4th Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin
• (2011) The Diachronic Corpus of Tyneside English, Discovering Babel workshop, Oxford University Computing Service
• (2009) TEI encoding of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, Summer School on Corpus Phonology, University of Augsburg, 27-31 July 2009
• (2009) The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, presentation to the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, 21 July
• (2009) Archiving digital corpora, presentation to the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies, University College Dublin, 21 July
• (2008) Statistical and stochastic methods in corpus-based phonology,  Summer School on Corpus Phonology, University of Augsburg, 18-22 August 2008.
• (2008) Data Normalization for Variation in Document Length in Exploratory Multivariate Analysis of Text Corpora, INFOS2008: 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, Cairo University, 27-29 March 2008.
• (2007) Using electronic corpora in historical dialectology research: the problem of document length variation, 2nd International  Conference on English Historical Dialectology, Bergamo, Italy.
• (2007) Using electronic corpora to study language variation: the problem of data sparsity, Fourth International Conference on Language variation in Europe, University of Cyprus
• (2007) Data nonlinearity in exploratory multivariate analysis of language corpora, Computing and Historical Phonology, 9th Meeting of ACL Special Interest Group for Computational Morphology and Phonology. Prague
• (2006) Nonlinear exploratory multivariate analysis of historical text corpora, Institute for Historical Dialectology, University of Edinburgh
• (2005) Phonetic variation in Tyneside: exploratory multivariate analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English,  International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Meertens Institute, Amsterdam
• (2005) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A New Tool for Analysing English Linguistic Structure’, First International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of Edinburgh, June 23rd-26th 2005
• (2005) Identifying the main determinants of phonetic variation in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, Fifth Meeting of the UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC 5). University of Aberdeen
• (2004) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English, ALLC/ACH, University of Gothenburg, June 2004.
• (2004) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule’’: Models and Methods’, Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, University of Newcastle, April 2004.
• (2004) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: A Witness to the History of Computing’, Digital Resources in the Humanities, University of Newcastle
• (2004) ‘On the need for constituency structure in natural language understanding systems’, Department of Computer Science, Birmingham University
• (2004) ‘Implementation of sentence meaning with attractor sequences’, Wellcome Symposium on Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives, Newcastle University
• (2003) ‘Linguistic corpus construction and analysis before and after the IT revolution: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’, Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Athens, Georgia
• (2003) ‘Cluster analysis of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: a comparison of methods’, Web X: A Decade of the World Wide Web, Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Athens, Georgia
• (2003) ‘The primary determinant of vernacular literacy in early medieval England and Ireland’, Language of religion – language of the people: Judaism, medieval Christianity and Islam, Paderborn 5-9 July
• (2003) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ , 2nd International Conference on Language Variation and Change in Europe, University of Uppsala, June 2003
• (2003) ‘A Linguistic “Time-Capsule”: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English’ , NWAVE, University of Philadelphia, October 2003.
• (2003) ‘The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English: Ethical and Legal Consequences of Linguistic Archaeology’, Arts and Humanities Data Service Copyright and Digitisation Workshop, London
• (2003) ‘Exploratory multivariate analysis of linguistic corpora’, seminar at the Institute of Language, Speech, and Hearing, University of Sheffield
• (2003) ‘A northern King Arthur?’, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
• (2002) Topographic mapping as a tool for multivariate analysis and results visualization of dialectal data, Methods XI. Eleventh International Conference on Methods on Dialectology, University of Joensuu, Finland [with Will Allen and Karen Corrigan]
• (2002) 'The analysis and visualization of a socio-cultural resource: topographic mapping of the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English', Digital Resources in the Humanities 2002, University of Edinburgh
• (2001) 'A Linguistic Time-capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English',  New Ways of Analysing Variation, October 2001, University of North Carolina [with Joan Beal and Karen Corrigan]
• (2001) ‘The Newcastle-Poitiers Corpus of Tyneside English’, UK Language Variation and Change Conference, University of York, July 2001
• (2001) 'Corpus analysis and results visualisation using self-organizing maps', Corpus Linguistics 2001, Lancaster University, 30 March - 2 April 2001 [with Joan Beal]
• (2000) 'The Newcastle-Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English.' [With Beal, J., Fryd, M. & Corrigan, K.], 11th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Santiago de Compostella
• (2000) 'Linguistics and the English Language. Université deToulouse, July 2000.  'The Newcastle-Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English' [With Beal, J., Fryd, M. & Corrigan, K.]
• (2000) 'State space trajectories in language processing', International Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Networks and Neuroscience, Durham University
• (1999) 'The Arthurian Grail and Celtic kingship mythology', Historisches Seminar, University of Konstanz, Germany
• (1995) 'Recurrent artificial neural networks and finite state natural language processing', Conference on New Methods in Language Processing, University of Manchester Institute of Technology (UMIST)
• (1994) 'Lordship, tradition, and poets among the early Germans', International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
• (1993) Workshop contribution, 'Inference of syntactic structure using artificial neural networks', Department of Computer Science, University College, Dublin
• (1993) Workshop contribution, 'Applications combining pyrolysis mass spectrometry and artificial neural network analysis', Biomedical Unit, University of Newcastle
• (1992) 'Lindisfarne, Iona, and the Continent in the seventh century', Department of English Language, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• (1992) 'Recurrent neural net implementation of abstract automata for natural language processing', Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Dublin City University
• (1992) 'Where connectionism fits', research seminar, Department of English Language, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• (1991) 'Connectionist finite state parsing', Institut fur Informatik, Technische Universität München, Germany
• (1991) 'Neural networks and natural language processing', to Neural Networks Seminar,  Department of Physiology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• (1985) 'The historicity of the Anglo-Saxon court poet', to McGill University Summer  School, Montreal, Canada
• (1985) 'The historicity of the Anglo-Saxon court poet', to McGill University Summer  School, Montreal, Canada
• (1984) 'Das Kloster Iona und seine Verbindungen mit dem Kontinent im siebenten und achten Jahrhundert', University of Salzburg, Austria
• (1984) 'King and Poet in Anglo-Saxon England', Bede Conference, Jarrow
• (1984) 'The Church and the native tradition of learning in early Ireland', Colloquium on Ireland and Europe, Dublin
• (1983) 'Kingship and Law in early Ireland', Seventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, Oxford
• (1983) 'Kingship and dynastic history in Anglo-Saxon England', University of Birmingham Historical Society
• (1982) 'Kingship and orally transmitted Stammestradition among the Lombards and Franks', to Austrian Historical Society Conference, Zwettl, Austria
• (1982) 'Arthurian Romance and Celtic Tradition', Arthurian Society Annual Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne

• (2017) The 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems
• (2017) CICLing: International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
• (2016) QUALICO 2016 Quantitative Linguistics Association Conference
• (2015) Programme committee,Corpus Linguistics 2015, UCREL, University of Lancaster, UK
• (2014) QUALICO 2014 Quantitative Linguistics Association Conference
• (2006) Programme committee, workshop on computational research in historical phonology, Association for Computational Linguistics conference, Prague
• (2006) European Science Foundation funded 'European Phonological Corpus Group' research group, Meertens Institute, Netherlands.
• (2004) Programme committee, Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference
• (2004) Programme committee, Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, Newcastle University
• (2004) Wellcome Foundation Symposium: ‘Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives’, Newcastle University

Research funding

• (2010-11) A Linguistic 'Time Capsule' for the Google Generation (DEDEFI Scheme), Arts and Humanities Research Council
• (2007) British Academy: Exploratory multivariate analysis of the Qur'an: the problem of variation in sura length
• (2003) Wellcome Foundation: Symposium on Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific, and dynamical systems perspectives
• (2003-4) British Academy: Transcription of Tyneside dialect recordings
• (2002) British Academy: Topographic mapping as a tool for analysis and results visualization of dialectal data
• (2002-3) Catherine Cookson Foundation: Conservation of Tyneside dialect recordings
• (2001-2005) Arts and Humanities Research Board: A Linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English
• (1999-2001) British Academy: The Newcastle /Poitiers Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English

  Reviewing

• Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
• Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
• OBM Neurobiology

Teaching

• (1974-8) Oriel College Oxford: undergraduate tutorials in Old and Middle English language
• (1978-9) Leicester University, Department of English: undergraduate lectures, seminars, and tutorials in Old and Middle English language
• (1980-2014) Newcastle University
  • Undergraduate lectures, seminars, and tutorials in Old and Middle English language, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, history of literacy, philosophical context of linguistics
  • Postgraduate teaching of the above topics at MA level, and PhD supervision of research in statistical analysis of corpus linguistic data and occasional other topics such as nondeterminism in computer games
  • Occasional lectures series in various units of the University on web design for teaching and the history of American English

Administration

• 2004-2011: Undergraduate selector for Language and Linguistics degrees
• 1997-2002: Member, Academic Services Spending Authority
  • Chairman, Language Centre Committee
  • Chairman, Audio-Visual Centre Committee
  • Chairman, Audio-Visual Centre Committee
  • Chairman, Shefton Museum Committee
  • Member, Computing Services Committee
  • Member, Smart Card Task Force
• 1997-2001: member, School of English management committee
• 1996-97: member, University Working Party on teaching with the World Wide Web
• 1994-97: member, School of English resources committee
• 1994-97: member, School of English research committee
• 1991-93: chairman, Arts Faculty Computing Advisory Committee
• 1990-1993: Head of Department of English Language
• 1990-92: member of School of English committee on modularization
• 1986-1990: member, School of English executive committee
• 1984 – 2002: School of English IT administrator
• 1984-2000: member, Arts Faculty Computing Advisory Committee
• 1982: member of School of English committee to reform the department’s examining system