Christine Muir is an Assistant Professor in Second Language Acquisition in the School of English, University of Nottingham. She has published on varied topics relating to the psychology of language learning and teaching, particularly in the area of individual and group-level motivation in language education. Recent publications include Directed motivational currents and language education: Exploring implications for pedagogy (in press, Multilingual Matters) and Role Models in Language Learning: Results of a Large-Scale International Survey (2019, Applied Linguistics, with Zoltán Dörnyei & Svenja Adolphs).