Dr Joanna Channell
Language Awareness author
Dr Joanna Channell has twenty years’ experience of researching, teaching and writing about language and communication. After ten years in universities as a lecturer in applied linguistics, course leader and manager, she set up her consultancy business in 1993 and provides research and training to businesses, Government departments, local authorities, hospitals and universities.
Joanna has been involved in many materials development and dictionary projects. She is joint author of The Words You Need and More Words you Need (Macmillan 1980 and 1985), and was involved with the Collins Cobuild development team for many years, specialising in the presentation of pragmatic information in the dictionaries. She is the author of Vague Language (Oxford University Press, 1994).
Recently she has been developing materials and a DVD aimed at ensuring fairness in job interviewing for candidates from diverse language and cultural backgrounds, and carrying out research on the asylum process for the Home Office, as well as running regular workshops on effective writing.