Paul Breen Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London

Responsible for the design of digital learning resources and the maintenance of Virtual Learning Environments. This has included the development of a Resources Moodle accessible by all students across the university, both undergraduate and postgraduate. Teaching of Academic Writing courses particularly to Science students. Offering writing tutorials to.

London, United Kingdom

Published author with University of Westminster Press - story of team building, teaching with technologies and the development of teaching professionals in a higher educational context.

London, United Kingdom

• SENIOR LECTURER within the Westminster Centre for Teaching and Innovation – a cross-university, cross-discipline department designed to provide strategic academic leadership in learning and teaching alongside.
• Leading and mentoring a specific group of teachers working within this CTI.
• Running specific modules on various courses such as Academic and Professional Writing, EAP, MA TESOL, Language Acquisition and Academic Skills/Critical Thinking. This includes extensive work on design of curriculum.
• Leadership and significant re-design of the Materials’ Development module delivered as part of an MA TESOL course. Additional dissertation supervision for students of teacher education and internal examining of other.
• Pastoral care of students across courses and assisting colleagues in such areas as developing pedagogic scholarship and writing Fellowship applications.
• Helping build links between departments internally, and building an external profile for myself and the university through instances such as external examining EAP courses in Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University and.

Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

EUROPE/US

This is my second work of fiction which was released in late September 2016 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bones-Season-Paul-Breen/dp/0997806230/

International

• Author of academic publications for IGI Global, going back to 2010
• Most significant publication to date has been an edited collection of articles entitled 'Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education.'
• This casebook featured contributions from almost twenty authors - based in various locations throughout the world - and entailed substantial effort in terms of proof reading, editing, offering advice, and compiling the.
• I also wrote the foreword for the book, and a chapter on teacher education.
• Previous collaborations carried out on the part of IGI Global have included work with University of Manchester colleagues Achilleas Kostoulas and Magdalena De Stefani on a chapter entitled Navigating a pathway to.
• This appeared in the edited publication - 'Cases on Innovations in Educational Marketing: Transnational and Technological Strategies. United States, IGI Global.'

Greenwich, London

• Teaching and scholarship role which has included the design and delivery of an academic writing course for Foundation students, and development of new courses in the areas of Personal Development Planning & Research.
• Responsible for the supervision of undergraduate students completing dissertations in Business, Strategy & HRM related subjects.
• Active in developing new and innovative ways of widening participation for students whose first language is not English, or who need work on generic components of academic literacy.
• Have been active in conference attendance, and presentation/publication of papers.
• Worked to increase presence of learning technologies on courses, particularly in use of VLE and integration of video materials and programmes such as Panopto.

London

• Contracted author with Thames River Press London
• Responsible for the writing of well-researched literary works, with commercial appeal
• Published one work of fiction entitled The Charlton Men which is available through all major booksellers including Amazon, Waterstones, and WH Smith.
• Agreement to publish further works
• Featured in local & national press as a consequence of my work
• Positively reviewed by a number of independent critics

University OF Manchester

September 2008 – August 2014: PhD in Education by Distance Mode – University of Manchester - supervised by Dr. Gary Motteram and Dr. Diane Slaouti, University of Manchester - and examined by Dr. Alex Ding, University of Nottingham, and Dr. Charlotte Woods, University of Manchester.

UEA London

• Established the EAP & Academic Skills departments of the University of East Anglia's satellite campus in London, playing a major role in this start up venture. I also served as acting Academic Director of the whole.
• Built up a team of over fifty teachers over the course of several years and watched this team grow, through provision of internal and external development opportunities
• Managed and taught on a range of courses at pre-degree, undergraduate, and postgraduate level.
• Developed new areas of enterprise and generation of revenue through design and delivery of in sessional courses for students at City University London and GCU London
• Set up and provided training in the use of a Moodle Virtual Learning Environment
• Aside from teaching and management, I consistently engaged in research and scholarly activity

London, United Kingdom

Wrote The Charlton Men, a novel that is available in both print and Kindle formats.

Charlton

Club member and season ticket holder.

Organisational member

Established a food growing society; fought to keep the parks open; wrote letters to the press; did radio interviews and so on.

London Docklands AND Stratford

Enjoyable position in a very young and vibrant university that serves the community of which it is an integral part. I was employed as a lecturer in EAP, with particular responsibility for delivering a Pre Masters programme in Business. This programme, delivered over three month blocks, included components in English Language and Study Skills and was.

University Of Greenwich

Taught on pre sessionals here in the summer of 2006 and then came back for good in 2007 to the historic borough of Greenwich. At first I worked as a sessional lecturer on EAP courses and later assumed a position as Programme Manager for the International Foundation Programme with Cultural Studies, and secondly Senior Lecturer in Academic Writing for Legal.

Seoul, Korea

Taught mainly Creative Arts, Humanities, Architecture, Science and Engineering students in a government university in the Korean capital. Enjoyable experience that afforded me a very detailed glimpse of life in South Korea; a country that in many ways has echoes of Ireland in terms of its emphasis on education, community, and national pride. During my time.

Phd, Teacher Education And Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas, Pass (November 2014)

Activities and Societies: The Doctoral Community of the Language Teacher Education (LTE) group at The University of Manchester (School of.

International Educational Development Online Course, Educational/Instructional Media Design

Pilot course in Educational Development for educators across North America and Europe collaborating on shared projects and exchange of.

Masters In Education, Educational Technology & English Language Teaching

Activities and Societies: The Doctoral Community of the Language Teacher Education Group.Studied Educational Technology & Language Teaching

Level 5 Professional Certificate In Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Management and Leadership trainingStudied and practiced leadership training.

Pgce, Further Education

Activities and Societies: Student Union groups.Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching

English Language And Literature, Anglo Irish Fiction; Poetry; Autobiography; Black American Writing.

Activities and Societies: AMNESTY INTERNATIONALStudied English Literature & Language - as well as taking part in a number of groups and.

A Levels, English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: Various.Completed seven years of study in one of Fermanagh's top grammar schools.