He has been a teacher, author and teacher trainer in ELT for over 30 years. 

In 2000 he co-founded the Dogme in ELT movement with Scott Thornbury; their book, Teaching Unplugged (Delta, 2009) won a British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in 2010, and he has trained extensively since then, sharing ideas with teachers around the world. 

In 2011 he started the independent e-publishing collective, the round, with Lindsay Clandfield: their book 52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom, was published in 2012.