Ken Hyland

Professor Ken Hyland

Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia
Visiting Professor, Beijing Normal University, China
Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of the Humanities

Qualifications

  • 1995PhD (Applied Linguistics), University of Queensland
  • 1984MA (Applied Linguistics), University of Birmingham
  • 1977Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, Worcester University
  • 1976BA (2:1 Hons) (Sociology), University of Warwick

Recent distinctions

  • 2025Stanford/Elsevier most influential scholar in language and linguistics (fifth consecutive year)
  • 2025Reached 100,000 citations on Google Scholar
  • 2024Research.com ranked Ken as the 112th most influential scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences globally and 16th in the United Kingdom