Not active here anymore. Prof of English for Academic Purposes Interests: scholarship, social theory, practitioners, agency, EAP, politics of HE, Bourdieu.
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It appears its finally out now. Working with all the chapter authors has been a great pleasure, especially my co-editor @LaetitiaM19 - this volume should be of interest to #tleap @baleap
bloomsbury.com/uk/practition… I co-edited this volume with @LaetitiaM19. We wrote a chapter on socio-analysis of the field of EAP. Some excellent contributions from around the world by @BeeBond1 @Namali_T @tanzela @MichelleJoube18 @PhDgirlSA @IwonaPringle @sarahtee7
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We have provided a short blog post about our new book 'Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education'. The link is celt.leeds.ac.uk/news/book-p…
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Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link #tleap eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-bee…
Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link #tleap eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-bee…
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Some interesting thoughts in this article.
Knowing Neoliberalism: Social Epistemology: Vol 33 , No 4 - Get Access tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
theguardian.com/education/20… It would be interesting to know the socio-economic backgrounds of academic staff and how many had been educated in private schools. And whether there are disciplinary differences in staff privately educated
1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
3/4 We have tried to discuss social justice and Higher Education by considering the role of language ontology, of ethics and social theory, and of pedagogy. We use social semiotics and Bourdieu's field theory to address these issues.
Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2024.… this is really interesting
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Transparency in Assessment!
Submit your abstracts by Oct 2, 2024, for the @ReviewofEdu special issue on #AssessmentTransparency. Open to researchers, teaching fellows, practitioners, professional staff & regulators.
1/4 Who needs who? The number of publications by researchers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics who repeat ad nauseum their earnest calls and desires to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners is getting very tired. To the point where one could ask who really needs who
3/4 Moreover, often with a somewhat condescending tone, practitioners are constantly in need of researcher help and intervention (which can then be used as rich data for yet more publications)
doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.202… tell me this is a parody...
1/2 I am currently writing about academic ethos. As part of researching for this chapter, out of curiosity I looked up a prolific professor of applied linguistics. In 2023 they published 47 papers, so far, in 2024, they have published 26. Only 1 is single-authored.
doi.org/10.1080/03075079.202…
Mark Erickson, Paul Hanna & Carl Walker (2021) The UK higher education senior management survey: a statactivist response to managerialist governance, Studies in Higher Education, 46:11, 2134-2151, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1712693
'Today we publish a manifesto, tomorrow we
pull the rug from under a colleague in the hope of gaining funds for a research assistant. Divide and conquer works because we all join in.'
The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University. doi.org/10.1007/s11024-015-9…
