Dr Catalina Neculai is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Academic Writing. Catalina joined CAW as a full time academic in 2009, after a two-year tutoring stint at CAW while completing her doctorate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Catalina has a background in English and French languages and literatures, and 15-year experience in research writing development (at all levels of expertise and experience) and Writing in the (trans/inter-)Disciplines. She is co-convenor of the AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée) Research Network on Academic Publishing and Presenting in a Global Context. Catalina is also an active researcher interested in urban communities, activism and cultural documentation, and ideologies/spaces/scales of writing and academic knowledge production. You can learn more about Catalina’s research on her Coventry University profile page.