Adrian was born in Nottingham – home to Robin Hood – in 1966. After taking his TEFL Certificate he started teaching in Spain and has since lived and worked in France, Hungary, Ecuador and the UK.

While he was working in Hungary he took his MEd on a distance programme with Sheffield University.

In recent years he has run workshops and teacher training courses in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan as well as in the UK.

He has written web based materials for a number of Macmillan courses, including: Way Ahead, Smart, Prospects, Inside Out, Skyline, English Upgrade and the Macmillan English Dictionary and Macmillan Essential Dictionary He also regularly writes the Web Quest for the onestopenglish web magazine. He is also the materials advisor and co-author of three coursebooks – English Matters – written for schools in Uzbekistan.

He is currently working part-time for New College Nottingham where, among other things, he is responsible for developing courses for non-native teachers on areas such as teaching ‘culture’ and ‘materials design’.