Formal name: Christopher N Candlin

Position: Senior Research Professor

Personal Title: Professor

Qualifications: BA Oxf., MA (Hons) Oxf., MPhil Yale., DipEd(TESOL) Lond., PhD h.c. Jyväskylä, FRSA

Telephone: +61 2 9850 9181

Fax: +61 2 9850 9199

Location: C5A 572

Web Pages:

• http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/about/staff/candlin_chris/index.html
• Selected Publications
• Current Research Project
• Recent Research Projects
• New Cooperative Research Project
• Arbitration Project Report City University, Hong Kong (May 2007)

Profile

Before joining Macquarie as Professor of Linguistics and Head of Department in 1987, Chris was Professor of Applied Linguistics at Lancaster University in the UK. At Macquarie he established and was Executive Director of the National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research (NCELTR) and first Director of the Centre for Language in Social Life (CLSL), and with colleagues re-developed and revitalized the undergraduate and graduate curricula. From 1998-2002 he was Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics at The City University of Hong Kong and directed the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Centre in English Language Education & Communication Research. He returned to Macquarie in 2002 to take up a halftime position as Senior Research Professor in Linguistics. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff in the UK, and Honorary Chair Research Professor at Beijing University of Foreign Studies. Until 2006  he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Health Communication Research at Cardiff, and part-time Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language & Communication at The Open University (UK) (2002-2005). Since 2006 he is once again full-time at Macquarie as Senior Research Professor in Linguistics.

Chris's current research lies in developing an effective multi-perspectived approach to applied linguistics combining discourse, interactional-sociolinguistic and pragmatic analysis with textual (functional grammatical/corpus-based) description, linked to ethnographic/narrative accounts of participant behaviour, informed by social theoretically-based studies of institutional structures. Such a reflexive and interdiscursive model implies collaborative and co-constructed research with participants, involving close links with academic disciplines and professional communities related to applied linguistics, for example, education, sociology, law, medicine/healthcare, social work, but also with workers in relevant professional fields. In the last six years his research has targeted two main areas:

• professional and organizational communication (in particular in the fields of healthcare, law, and management studies);
  
  
• disciplinary discourses in the academy and academic literacies more generally;

and in addition to academic publications has led to practically relevant accounts directed at informing the professional development of practitioners via a variety of modes, in particular through distance and online learning.

To date (2007) Chris has successfully supervised 47 doctoral students (with 20 now under supervision), and over 200 MA students. He currently shares oversight and support for research and publication in the Department and co-directed the design of the new postgraduate program (from PG Certificate to Doctorate levels) in Communication in Professions & Organizations. Chris is associated with NCELTR and CLSL, and the new Faculty Research Centre in Translation and Interpreting, as well as researching professional-client interaction in speech pathology and audiology. Current major projects include work on the discourses of arbitration, and the appraisal of the communicative expertise of medical doctors seeking accreditation as Fellows of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

Chris currently edits or co-edits 7 international book series, and sits on the editorial boards of 6 major journals. He has written or edited over 150 publications including refereed articles, book chapters, journal special issues, books and reports in the above fields; he has presented more than 90 invited plenary papers, and has (co)written a number of currently available units in the Applied Linguistics and Communication in Professions and Organizations programs in the Department. Chris has received more than 50 grants from funding bodies, including the ARC, NH & MRC, Macquarie University, UGC (Hong Kong) and The Leverhulme Trust (UK). Chris co-edits the new Journal of Applied Linguistics with Professor Srikant Sarangi of Cardiff University, UK. From 1996-2002 he was President of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), has acted as a consultant in over 35 countries and as external faculty assessor in 36 universities. Further details are available on his homepage.