Former SIG Committee Members
Former SIG Committee Members
We have been fortunate enough to have an excellent team, past and present. Please get to know the folks who have helped make the TEd SIG what it is today.
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Dr Lindsay Knox, Founder
Dr Lindsay Knox, Founder
Lindsay has been an English Language teacher and language teacher educator since 1993, working in Greece, Italy, France and the UK. Her language teacher educator experience includes both pre-service and in-service work, and she has been a trainer on CELTA, Trinity CertTESOL and Trinity Diploma courses.
Since 2007, she has worked at the University of Edinburgh, where she is the Head of Teacher Development and Scholarship for Languages in the Centre for Open Learning. Her responsibilities include designing Edinburgh's year-round CPD programme and managing teacher induction and CPD for our summer colleagues. She also convenes our scholarship and publication group, which aims to support colleagues to investigate their EAP practice through the development and dissemination of small scholarship projects. Lindsay is also responsible for in-sessional academic language and literacy courses in the School of Education, and lectures on the Professional Practice course in the MSc in Language Education.
Her current research interests include EAP practitioner development and scholarship.
Dr Carole MacDiarmin, Founder
Dr Carole MacDiarmin, Founder
Carole has been involved in English as a Foreign Language and EAP teaching and teacher education, including as a CELTA and DELTA trainer for over 30 years, first in Istanbul, Turkey, with the DELTA Online, and in the UK. She started teaching in language schools and then at Istanbul University, and worked as a teacher trainer for the International Training Institute and the British Council. She's worked at the University of Glasgow since 2003.
Carole is a Senior Lecturer and English for Academic Purposes Manager in English for Academic Study, where she's responsible for Teacher Development. She leads on the Teaching English for Academic Purposes (TEAP) postgraduate course provision, teaches on the MEd and MSc TESOL programmes and supervises PhDs.
Carole was a member of the BALEAP Teaching English for Academic Purposes working party, which developed the TEAP Fellowship (Individual) Accreditation Scheme and is a BALEAP Senior Fellow, mentor and assessor. She has also been an assessor for the BALEAP Accreditation Scheme (BAS). Her research and scholarship interests include pedagogies in English for Academic Purposes (EAP), Teacher Development and EAP Teacher Competencies, and Spoken Academic Discourse.
Olga Eva Rutkovska-Lis, Web Coordinator
Olga Eva Rutkovska-Lis, Web Coordinator
Olga is a psycholinguist, educationist, SEN specialist, academic, communication and study skills expert with considerable experience in teacher training (TESOL focus) and a passion for EAP, Education Studies and the Sociology of Education. They have been teaching since 2001 and working as a university lecturer since 2004 (both abroad and in the UK). They work as a co-ordinator for Pre-sessional Programmes at the University of York, advising colleagues and students on developing academic and communication skills.
Their current interests cover exploring interdisciplinarity in course development, online EAP course design, teacher education, and educational inequalities.
Dr Blair Matthews, Web Coordinator
Dr Blair Matthews, Web Coordinator
Blaire a Teaching Fellow at the University of St Andrews and is module convenor for two modules on our MSc TESOL: English for Academic Purposes and Technology for Teaching. They have worked in EAP since 2009.
Judith Gorham, Treasurer
Judith Gorham, Treasurer
Judith has been involved with EAP in Scotland at Heriot-Watt University since 2015. They teach in-sessional EAP courses for Computer Science and work on Pre-sessional programmes, developing all courses, and as Course Director for one of them. Before moving back to Scotland, they taught EAP at Bocconi University in Milan and Università Cattolica for 15 years. They have also worked as a teacher/examiner for the British Council in Milan.
Their research interests are in how teachers manage planned and spontaneous ‘teachable moments’ in EAP classes. They are also interested in ways to help students communicate their research multimodally.
Dr Rafaela de Brito, Secretary
Dr Rafaela de Brito, Secretary
Rafaela's first experience teaching in higher education was as a postgraduate teaching assistant at the University of Southampton, where they taught Politics and International Relations modules while doing their PhD. Since then, they have moved on to English language teaching, having worked in the UK, Spain and Portugal. After working on their first pre-sessional EAP course in 2018, they fell in love with the discipline and decided to pursue it as a career. Rafaela is interested in academic literacies, academic integrity and teacher education.
Leda Jeliazkova, Social Media Coordinator
Leda Jeliazkova, Social Media Coordinator
Leda is a Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at the London campus of the University of Sunderland. Their responsibilities include leading on learning design, developing an observation framework for the campus, conducting teacher training and delivering module-specific in-sessional ESAP courses in priority undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Previously, they were a teacher trainer, SIG leader, and Cambridge ESOL oral examiner at Bell Sofia. They also spent a few years in Scotland, where they worked for the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow International College, and the University of Edinburgh. Their main research interests are theoretical and pedagogical practices in course design, genre-based approaches to material development, academic literacy instruction, and teacher education and training.
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