Having graduated in Humanities: English literature/Musicology, at Hope University Liverpool in 1988 and working some years in public administration in Bristol I took the Cambridge TEFLA qualification and went to Madrid in 1992. Here I started teaching English as a foreign language at a private language school and then at the British Institute.
In 1998 I went to Germany where I mainly worked freelance in industry in the East of the country, returning to Spain in 2002, this time to Valencia where I was head of studies at a private language school. After two years I started working for CCOO doing Formación Profesional with (then) SERVEF (LABORA), then joining the Centre d’Idiomes de la Univesitat de València in 2012.