University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
About the Speaker
Professor Ken Hyland is an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia and was previously Director of the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) and Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) from 2009-2017. He has published 320 articles and 30 books on writing and academic discourse with over 100,000 citations on Google Scholar. A fifth edition of his Teaching and Researching Writing and a second edition of the Routledge Handbook of EAP (edited with Paul Thompson) will be published by Routledge in 2026. According to the Stanford/Elsevier analysis of the Scopus database, he has been the world’s most influential scholar in languages and linguistics (1st of the Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists Worldwide) for the last five years (2021-2025). A collection of his work, The Essential Hyland, was published in 2018 by Bloomsbury. He is the Editor of two book series with Routledge and Bloomsbury and a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities. He was founding co-editor of the Journal of English for Academic Purposes and co-editor of Applied Linguistics.