Dr Kay Gallagher, BEd, MEd, PhD, SFHEA is a Professor in Language Education at Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, where she teaches and conducts research in language and literacy education and teacher education. Kay has taught and led in the UAE, Hong Kong, and in her home country, Ireland, where she was a school principal. Her latest edited book is World Englishes in the Arab Gulf States (Routledge, 2025). She co-leads the Fathers and Reading research project, funded by the Early Childhood Authority, which supports emergent literacy and wellbeing through father-child reading at home.
