Helen is a member of the Centre for Applied Languages Studies and of the TESOL/Linguistics Section of the School of MLAL. Her research concerns sociolinguistics, the study of language in society, and focuses on the interrelationship between media, markets, technologies and languages and the management of these relationships. She is particularly interested in the economic aspects of multilingualism, especially in relation to minority languages, language policy, and the global political economy of English. 

• LI4018 Language Policy, Politics and Power, final year module for students of Linguistics with TESOL and Applied Languages.
• LI4004 Media Discourse Anaysis, for students on Journalism with Digital Communication, Linguistics with TESOL, Digital Culture and Communication, and Applied Languages.
• LI6141 Language for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Organisations, a fully online module on the PG Dip/Cert in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and an elective for MA students.
• LI6071 Approaches to Discourse, core module on the MA in Applied Linguistics
• LI6041 Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, core module on the MA in Translation, elective on MA in Applied Linguistics.
• Supervision of a wide range of final year dissertations and MA dissertations in TESOL, Applied Linguistics and Media and Cultural Studies. 
• 17 completed PhD supervisions; currently supervising 11 (5 solo, 6 co-supervisions) students over a range of topics in sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics / TESOL. 

Helen Kelly-Holmes holds the Chair in Applied Languages in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, Ollscoil Luimnigh/University of Limerick and is an active member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), having previously served as Director of the Centre.  Following undergraduate studies in Business and German at UL, Helen completed her PhD studies at Aston University, Birmingham in 1995. Helen returned to UL as a UL Foundation Research Scholar in 2002 from a lecturing post at Aston University, Birmingham, and was appointed to the Chair in Applied Languages in 2015. From September 2017 to March 2021, she served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. From 2015-2020, Helen was Co-Editor of Language Policy, the leading journal in the field, and since 2002 has, together with Sue Wright, edited Palgrave's long-running book series on Language and Globalization. Helen holds an Adjunct Professorship in Discourse Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where she has collaborated with long-time associate Prof. Sari Pietikainen on two Finnish-Academy funded projects (Northern Multilingualism and Peripheral Multilingualism). Helen is currently a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Language Policy  (emeritus editor), Text and Talk, and is a member of the advisory committees of Sociolinguistica and the European Centre for Minority Issues. In 2023, Helen was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy.