Gwyneth Fox
Associate Editor
Gwyneth Fox started her career as an EFL teacher in Rome. She returned to UK, where she lectured in Applied Linguistics at Birmingham Polytechnic, and ran teacher-training courses. She then returned to the classroom, and taught ESL at all levels in
Birmingham schools, whilst continuing to train teachers. She was recruited to the Cobuild project at the University of Birmingham as a part-time researcher when it began in 1981. She continued to work with the project, taking over as Publishing Director in 1993, being responsible for all the dictionaries, grammars, and other EFL materials that were produced. During that time and since then she has travelled extensively, and has run courses, given seminars, and attended conferences around the world, giving plenary talks in Brazil, Spain, Poland, Mexico, UK and many other countries. She left Cobuild in 1997, but stayed at the University and lectured in linguistics and applied linguistics. From 1999 she worked as a consultant for Macmillan Education, with the title of Publisher, Dictionaries. She was the Associate Editor for the dictionaries, being involved with the planning of the projects and focusing on the quality of text. In January 2008 she withdrew from day-to-day involvement with the dictionaries, and is now a Consultant to the Dictionaries Publishing Team. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Aston in Birmingham.