Averil Coxhead

Professor Averil Coxhead (she/her) is Dean/Amo Aronui of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Averils' research interests include specialised and academic vocabulary in the trades, at university and secondary school. One element of Averil's research involves developing and evaluating word lists. She has taught courses on second language learning in undergraduate TESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL programmes in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS) and supervised postgraduate research in a range of areas. She has taught in New Zealand, England, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Japan, Singapore and Thailand.

Averil convened Vocab@Vic 2022 and the inaugural Wellington Vocabulary Research Summer School in December, 2023. She was an Associate Editor of the Journal of English for Specific Purposes from November 2021 to December 2023.