Dr Matt Davies is a Senior Lecturer in English Language in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Chester, UK. He is an experienced researcher in theories of news discourse, representation, constructed binary oppositions and critical discourse analysis, using both qualitative and quantitative (e.g. corpus linguistics) approaches. He is keen to promote the use of alternative methods of assessment for students such as blogs and video presentations. To this end he facilitates the very successful Language Debates website and the on-line student magazine C.E.L.L.MATES. Recently he has been working with Cheshire Archives and Local Studies and Cheshire Life on a long-term project to digitise hard copies of the Cheshire Life magazine. He is Deputy Chair of the Faculty Ethics Committee since 2017 and is a member of the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), having been on the Executive Committee as newsletter editor (2014-17).