Committee Members

Committee Members

Dr. Mustafa Akıncıoğlu

Convenor

Mustafa is a University of Oxford researcher and an ardent progressivist.

Dr. Daniela Standen

Secretary

Dr. Standen is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading.  As Academic Director of Teaching and Learning (NUIST-Reading Academy) Daniela is responsible for academic quality and standards for students based at the NUIST-Reading Academy a joint institute in Nanjing, China. Her Teaching and Learning scholarship interests include: intercultural competence and communication, academic and vernacular literacy practices, assessment.

Dr. Aylin Ünaldı

Events Coordinator

Dr. Aylin Ünaldı is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL at University of Huddersfield.  She has a double PhD on Language Testing. She has extensive experience in foreign language teaching, teacher training, test development and validation as well as lecturing at post-graduate level in TESOL and Language Assessment.

Benjamin Gutscher

Web & Social Media Coordinator

Benjamin is a Lecturer of EAP and a member of the Research Committee at Duke Kunshan University's Language and Culture Center.  He holds an MA in Teaching EAP from the University of Nottingham (UK). His research interests include language support in EMI settings, incorporating AI literacy in academic writing courses, and using TELL and MALL technologies in the classroom.

Natalie Green

Events Coordinator

My interests are teacher development in both EAP and EMI, and collaboration between content and language specialists. I am currently an Associate Fellow of BALEAP, and a TEAP observer. I have worked in the Spanish, British and Chinese HE contexts, and have recently been involved in curriculum design and rewriting the centre’s pedagogical principles in EAP. I have a specialised MA in TEAP.

(Vacant)

Treasurer

Dr. Katrien Deroey

Ordinary Member,
Events

Professor Katrien Deroey is Head of English at the University of Luxembourg Language Centre and a linguistics lecturer. As a corpus linguist and EAP practitioner, her main research interests are lecture discourse and EMI lecturer training. She has guest-edited a special issue for JEAP on 'Lecturer discourse and lecturer training' (2023).


Dr. Samantha M. Curle

Ordinary Member,
Research & Publication

Dr. Samantha M. Curle (DPhil, FHEA, FRSA) is a Reader in Education (Applied Linguistics), Director of the MRes programme in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods (University of Bath), and Associate Member of the EMOxford Research Group (University of Oxford). She has published five edited books on EMI, and published in journals such as Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics Review, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Engineering Education. 

Joanne Shiel

Ordinary Member,
Events

Joanne is an Associate Professor of EAP at the University of Leeds, where she’s been working in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) since 2014. Her current role is as Year 1 Director and Director of Language for Engineering Programmes at the South-West Jiaotong University (SWJTU) – Leeds Joint School in Chengdu, China.  

Dr. Carolyn Westbrook 

Ordinary Member,
Research and Publication

Dr Carolyn Westbrok, University of Bredfordshire. Carolyn is a Test Development Researcher for the British Council.

Erkin Mukhammedov

Ordinary Member,

Country Liaisons

Prof. Hans Malmström

Sweden

Hans Malmström is a Professor, Language and Communication, Communication and Learning in Science at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. His research is primarily concerned with aspects of SLA in EMI contexts exploring how language and communication potentially affects learning within a discipline. He also Co-edits the Journal of English-Medium Instruction (John Benjamins).

Michela Gronchi PhD(c)

Italy 

Michela Gronchi is an assistant professor in Educational Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University in Venice and works as a language specialist for the University of Genoa in Italy. She is a Professional Doctorate candidate in TESOL at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her main research interests are EAP and EMI with a strong focus on language learning and teacher identity.

Dr. Jack Pun

Hong Kong

Jack Pun is Associate Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. Jack works within the field of Applied Linguistics, with research interests in English as medium of instruction (EMI), English language education, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics and systemic functional linguistics.

Dr. Qingyang Sun

China

Dr. Qingyang Sun is an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. She has worked as an EAP lecturer, and she is interested in the intersections between EAP and EMI. Her research areas include source use, academic writing, feedback practices and technology use. She has published articles in high-ranking journals such as System, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

David Anstey

China

David Anstey is Centre Operations Director and Module Convenor for Science and Engineering ESAP modules at the Centre for English Language Education, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He has worked in EAP for over 15 years in South Korea, Turkey and China, and his interests include educational leadership, operations management, behavioural leadership theory and curriculum design.

Dr. Angela Hakim

United States

Dr. Angela Hakim is an English Lecturer at Iowa State University where she teaches foundations writing, technical writing, and English for academic purposes and a Visiting Research Scholar in SLA and Teaching at the University of Arizona where her current research focuses on writing instructors' pedagogical content knowledge and teaching practices. Angela is an applied linguist with research interests in EAP, writing provision in higher education, genre studies, academic literacy development, and EMI.

Dr. Tijen Akşit

Türkiye

Dr. Tijen Aksit is an Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Education at Bilkent University. Previously she also worked as Director of School of English Language and its Faculty Academic English Program at the same university for many years. She researches and publishes in the areas of Teaching EAP, English Medium Instruction (EMI), English language teacher development, and quality assurance in English language programs of higher education. 

Dr Stefan Serwe

Germany

Stefan Serwe is currently the Director of the Language Centre at Osnabrück University in Germany. The Centre offers various electives in modern foreign languages, German as a foreign language, and English for Academic Purposes to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students. Stefan completed his PhD in Linguistics and Educational Sciences at the Universities of Luxembourg and Geneva. 

Rhona Lohan PhD(c)

Spain

Rhona Lohan is a dedicated EAP lecturer at ESIC University, Madrid, with over a decade of experience. She also teaches Scientific Investigation. Her research highlights the importance of EAP for successful English-medium instruction (EMI) courses, empowering students to excel in academic settings through tailored language support.

Dr. Bridget Goodman

Kazakhstan

Bridget Goodman is Associate Professor of Multilingual Education at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Her dissertation was an ethnographic case study of EMI at a Ukrainian university. Since earning her PhD in 2013, she has published individually and with colleagues from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the UK on themes including: 1) EMI policy; 2) EMI and translanguaging; 3) EMI and multilingual academic skills development; and 4) EMI policy and practice across Eurasian contexts.  


Peter Bannister PhD(c)

Spain

Peter Bannister, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at International University of La Rioja, Spain, cultivated a decade-long international career in EMI pedagogy and management. His published research explores the implications of human-Generative AI interaction for pedagogy and assessment praxis and policy development in EMI Higher Education through the lens of social justice.

Dr. Neil Johnson

The UAE

Aysha Ahmed

KSA

Saida Radjabzade

Uzbekistan