Dr. Samantha Curle is a Reader in Education (Applied Linguistics), Director of all MRes programmes (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), and Institutional Academic Lead for the South-West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) at the University of Bath. She is also Adjunct Professor at Khazar University (Azerbaijan) and an Associate Member of the English Medium Instruction (EMI) Oxford Research Group. Dr. Curle’s research interest lies in factors affecting academic achievement in EMI in higher education, such as English proficiency and psychological constructs. She has published six edited books on EMI (one forthcoming) and her EMI-related research has been published in journals such as Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics Review, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Engineering Education, Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, Journal of English for Academic Purposes and Language Teaching. Her research spans across four continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, South America), and has been funded by the European Commission, the national Research Councils in Hong Kong and Turkey, the British Academy Newton Fund, as well as the British Council. Dr Curle is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of Arts (UK).