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Ely, Gb

Ely, Gb

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Researching education and ELT to imbed insights and USPs into English language teaching, learning, and assessment products. Building relationships with and communicating insights to product teams and stakeholders around the business to influence strategy and direction. Managing the creation of free-to-use content for external audiences, such as blogs, webinars, and white papers, to build the reputation of Cambridge English and further the university's mission to contribute to society.

I delivered the operational aspects of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the Universityof Cambridge, a £10,000,000 project that employs computer science to accelerate climate sciencediscoveries. I was responsible for organising international events with hundreds of attendees,procuring thousands of pounds of equipment, establishing collaborations between multiple teams,assisting the Institute's directorship, creating, building, and managing our website, reporting todonors, and working with communication managers to build our reputation and brand.

Faculty Of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics

I oversaw the teaching, assessment, and development of three undergraduate programmes, with over900 students taking hundreds of courses. I directly managed a team of 7, working closely with a variety of Faculty and external stakeholders, to deliver this programme. I coordinated a variety of other Faculty activities and contributed to other projects both locally and at the university level, for instance I was the lead administrator on the working group developing a proposal for a new undergraduate programme in Linguistics & Modern Languages, coordinating interviews, focus groups, surveys, written feedback on proposals, and so on.

Teaching the seminars on Lancaster's undergraduate Stylistics course (LING210) for the academic year 2020-21Convening LING210 for the academic year 2021-22: lecturing, teaching seminars, preparing and marking coursework, preparing and marking examination, and supervising undergraduate dissertations.

Faculty Of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics

Coordinating Slavonic Studies, Italian, and Modern Greek at the university (2019-20)Coordinating German & Dutch and Spanish & Portuguese at the university (2020-21)

Faculty Of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Administering postgraduate Linguistics at the university

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Goyang, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea

Gimpo, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Linguistics

My thesis developed the first corpus-based method for inductively locating and analysing (im)politeness metalanguage, supervised by Prof.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Linguistics, Distinction

MA Language and Linguistics, with courses in Discourse Studies, Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Intercultural Communication.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Classics And Classical Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, 2:1

Studies of the ancient world and classical literature focusing on Latin and Ancient Greek language, as well as optional modules.