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London, England, United Kingdom

• Coordinating preparatory programmes for prospective postgraduate students to the institute.
• Liaising with academic staff and partner institutions in Central Asia and South Asia.
• Contributing to course development and syllabus design of programmes that prepare students for demanding, postgraduate courses in UK Higher Education.
• Teaching courses in English for Academic Purposes and research and study skills.
• Supervising MA dissertations for postgraduate students in topics including language and discourse, politics and area studies and education.

United Kingdom

Delivering lectures, seminars, and practical lab sessions on credit-bearing undergraduate modules in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics

United Kingdom

• Ecctis provides a number of UK national agency functions in qualifications, skills, and global professional mobility.My responsibilities include:
• Quality reviews of curriculum and assessments with a focus on language education.
• Literature reviews and synthesis of research
• Contributing to monitoring and evaluation for language education projects
• Drafting and writing reports
• Primary data collection through focus groups, interviews, and classroom observations

Cairo, Egypt

Senegal

• Working on the FCO-funded 'English Connects' project, responsibilities included:
• Mentoring Senegalese teacher trainers through cycles of observation, reflection and developmental conversations.
• Delivering face to face and remote training to Senegalese teacher trainers.
• Conducting monitoring and evaluation using qualitative and quantitative instruments.

United Kingdom

• Teaching English for Academic Purposes to students from East Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
• Assessing students' speaking and writing skills.
• Conducting one-to-one tutorials to support students in writing independent assignments.

Occupied Palestinian Territories

• Delivering professional development activities to tertiary level teachers including training, action research and coaching.
• Writing theory of change planning documents and a reform strategy for the university.
• Developing and employing a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework to measure the success of the project using qualitative and quantitative instruments.
• Regularly reporting activities in oral and written form to a range of stakeholders (UK MoD, university management, British Council)

Thailand

• Working on a Thai Government-funded teacher education project:
• Delivering English language teaching methodology training to primary and secondary state school teachers.
• Line managing two British trainers
• Overseeing the professional development of two Thai master trainers.
• Employing a range of monitoring and evaluation instruments to measure the quality of the professional development activities.

Myanmar

• Working on a DFID-funded capacity building project at Yangon University of Education.
• Delivering English language teaching and methodology training to lecturers from English and Education departments.
• Observing classes and giving oral and written feedback to trainees.
• Teaching EAP to teachers from a range of academic departments to improve English proficiency across the university.

Coventry

• Teaching English for Academic Purposes and study and research skills to undergraduate and postgraduate students from China, South East Asia and the Middle East.
• Assessing students' speaking and writing skills in academic settings.
• Using software such as Moodle and TurnItIn to give feedback to students, share materials and assess writing.

Egypt

• Managing adult programmes including general English, conversation, IELTS & business English courses.
• Line managing 6 full-time teachers.
• Delivering teacher training and mentoring trainees on the Teacher Support Programme.

Egypt

United Kingdom

Sevilla Area, Spain

San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

Hamburg, Germany

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Language And Linguistics (Part-Time, In Progress)

Master Of Arts - Ma, Applied Linguistics, Distinction

The dissertation focused on the evaluation of a peer coaching programme with Palestinian teachers of English at a university in the.

Ba (Hons) Philosophy And Politics

The course included a focus on moral and political philosophy as well as area studies modules such as 'Extreme right-wing parties in.