Ivan is currently serving as a Senior Editor of the Graduate Inequality Review in the University of Oxford and as a Teaching Facilitator in the VC’s Colloquium on Climate Change. The team he mentored has recently won the pitch contest, in which they devised a mini-allotment scheme to motivate sustainability in Colleges of the University. He has taken up lecturerships in a number of universities in Hong Kong and has run Education, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Academic English courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Prior to joining Oxford, Ivan received his teacher-training in Hong Kong and his postgraduate training in Linguistics (with a specialisation in pragmatics) at University College London. His research interests include: mental representation of word meanings, language acquisition, educational technology, and ELT pedagogy.