Joanna Kopaczyk is a researcher in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh and an associate professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She is a historical linguist with an interest in corpus methods, formulaic language, the history of Scots and historical multilingualism. She has given talks at conferences in Europe, the USA and Australia, and taught on various aspects of the history of English and Scots at universities in Poland, Germany, Finland, and the UK.