Stuart Warrington, Ed.D., has over 30 years of experience teaching EFL, ESL, EAP, ESP and EIL/ELF to mostly university students. He has been at NUCB since 2014 and previously taught in Japanese universities in Tokyo and Niigata-ken and, before that, in English language institutes in Seoul, South Korea and Calgary, Canada. His research interests and areas of expertise lie in self-access learning and advising, learner autonomy and agency, ecological language learning, and the language learner ecologies. He also researches professionalism, professionalisation and continuing professional development in language learning advising and managing. Stuart holds a B.A. in Psychology (University of Manitoba, Canada), a Certificate in TESOL (Canadian Global TESOL Training Institute), a Master of Education in TESL (University of Calgary, Canada), a TESL Professional Certificate - Standard 3 Trainer (TESL Canada Federation) and a Doctorate of Education in TESOL (University of Exeter, UK). He regularly publishes peer-reviewed papers in the field, presents at conferences, does language teacher-training workshops abroad, and occasionally edits and reviews articles for peer-reviewed journals.