He is currently a professor of applied linguistics in education at the University of East Anglia.Hyland is an applied linguist in the field of academic discourse, second language writing and English for Academic Purposes, and has published more than 26 books and 200 articles.
Google Scholar shows him to be one of the most cited researchers in Applied Linguistics Along with Cumming, Kormos, Manchón, Matsuda, Ortega, Polio, Storch and Verspoor, Hyland is considered as one of the most prominent researchers on second language writing.