Hilary Nesi

Hilary Nesi is Professor in English Language in the Department of English and Languages at Coventry University. She was principal investigator for the project to create the BASE corpus of British Academic Spoken English (2001–2005), and for the project to create the BAWE corpus: 'An Investigation of Genres of Assessed Writing in British Higher Education' (2004 – 2007).

She has published extensively on corpus development and analysis, the design and use of reference tools in academic contexts, and the teaching and learning of English for academic purposes.