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Emma Darbyshire will be joining on the 17 February
Emma will take up the post as Course Administration Officer, managing the admin teams for both Applied Linguistics and Education Studies. Emma will be joining us from WMG and will be taking over from Katie Barlow, who leaves at the end of February. Please do come and introduce yourself to Emma!
Paul Chilton has written a book 鈥楤rexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy鈥�
This was published in November 2024 and is available to purchase
Tony Liddicoat delivered a keynote lecture
A living curriculum as policy for languages education: towards a plurilingual and intercultural orientation/Un curriculum vivant comme politique d'enseignement des langues : vers une orientation plurilingue et interculturelle (Keynote lecture, with Angela Scarino) IALIC 2024: Towards a plurilingual curriculum: fostering pluricultural communication in the digital age. (28-30 November, 2024) Bordeaux, France.
Yvette Wang has been awarded a seed fund by WIHEA
Together with Dr Zi Wang (Student Opportunity) and Sara Hattersley (Academic Development Centre project proposal). The seed fund is for a GTA professional development entitled 鈥業ntercultural insight: Reflective practices for GTAs鈥�.
Jason Anderson's Publication
Jason Anderson Dixit, S. A., & Anderson, J. (2025). Translanguaging: A view from the South. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Advance online publication.
Martin Cortazzi was an invited panel member to contribute an online presentation on 'International researchers share their findings on the PhD the viva'
The panel, 'International researchers share their findings on the PhD the viva' for South African universities, and organised to ensure quality postgraduate experience and to help establish PhD vivas where this is not yet compulsory. Among over 100 attending were two university vice-chancellors, the National Coordinator of quality assurance, senior professors, doctoral supervisors and candidates. Martin Cortazzi with Lixian Jin also gave a plenary conference presentation on 'Applied linguistic perspectives on developing intercultural communication' at the Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, Oct. 31st- Nov. 1st Finally, Martin Cortazzi with Lixian Jin gave an invited presentation on 'Planetization through intercultural Communication' for the 23rd Conference on International Exchange and Professionals, attended by 1,200 participants from 70 countries, on November 2nd - 3rd in Shanghai, China,