Dr. Michelle Raquel is a Senior Lecturer at HKU's Centre for Applied English Studies, holding a PhD in Education and bringing over 20 years of higher education experience. Her pedagogical expertise centres on curriculum design, communication skills integration, and English for specific purposes. As Project Leader of HKU's Communication-intensive Courses initiative since 2018, she leads a university-wide effort to embed communication competencies across the curriculum, building faculty capacity and communities of practice.

She has designed multiple English disciplinary courses, chaired the CAES Teaching and Learning Quality Committee, and was part of the team that launched the Writing Across the Curriculum programme at HK Polytechnic University. She also has over 15 years of project management experience across large-scale inter-institutional initiatives and has secured over HKD 20 million in competitive grants. Her scholarship explores innovative pedagogies, diagnostic and classroom-based assessment, and ESP testing. She co-edited Routledge's Quantitative Data Analysis for Language Assessment Volumes I and II.