Niall Curry is a Senior ELT Research Manager at Cambridge University Press and conducts research on language and language pedagogy to inform materials development. He focuses on how we can use research from fields like corpus linguistics to better inform the choice of language to be learnt as well as educational research to guide the best way to learn language. Prior to working at Cambridge University Press, Niall worked as a language teacher and lecturer in applied linguistics at universities in France and Ireland.  He is also completing his PhD at the University of Limerick, Ireland on corpus-based contrastive linguistics of academic writing in English, French and Spanish.