In 1997 and 1998, Atkins, together with Michael Rundell, planned and presented two week-long workshops in South Africa, for linguists and lexicographers from the eleven language communities. Subsequently, Atkins and Rundell founded the Lexicography MasterClass, providing advice, consultancy services, and training for anyone involved in, or embarking on, a lexicographic project. Shortly afterwards they invited Adam Kilgarriff to join them. 2001 saw the first of the annual international Lexicom Workshops, which continue to this day. Their other main project was the planning, design, corpora-building, lexicographer-training, and production of the Dante database. This analysis of modern English was commissioned by Foras na Gaelige for use as the basis of their New English-Irish Dictionary, and was made available to scholars world-wide. Together, Atkins and Rundell wrote The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography (OUP: 2008). Now retired, Atkins has taught and consulted in lexicography, and participated in national and international research projects in the field of computational lexicography.