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Team

Dr Gabriel Cavalli

 

At QMUL Gabriel’s experience teaching and as Director of Teaching Development and Co-Director of the ICTL at QMUL’s Joint Educational Institute in China (Queen Mary Engineering School) confronted him with how crucial language is in developing disciplinary understanding. This reflection is largely absent from developing curriculum and teaching approaches in Science and Engineering, at least in the Higher Education sector. While the importance of language is unavoidable when teaching Chinese students Science and Engineering in English in China, Gabriel recognised that even the most competent speakers require support in constructing understanding of disciplinary language to adequately support their understanding of the subject. Based on his own experience as a learner of English as a second language, Gabriel was inspired on Michael Swan’s Practical English Usage for the development of SEE-U.

Dr Maame Afua Nikaabs

 

Maame recently completed her PhD in linguistics and currently works part-time with the School of Engineering and Materials Science at QMUL as a Teaching and Scholarship assistant with the ICTL. She is interested in the application of linguistic research in other disciplinary contexts, particularly, in turning analysis into evidenced-based training and teaching materials. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and teaching English to other speakers from Newcastle University and completed my BA in Linguistics at the University of Ghana.

Dr Colleen Cotter

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Colleen is a Reader in Media Linguistics and former Dean for Education in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Her research areas include news media language, endangered languages, language and community, and the role of technology and culture in the examination of discourse and language style. She is the author of News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism (CUP 2010) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Language and Media (2018). Before relocating to London, she was a daily newspaper reporter and editor in the US, and taught journalism and linguistics in California and Washington, DC. She has mentored numerous students researching language, discourse, and communication in relation to workplace, social media, gender, journalism, policy, technology, the internet, music, arts and culture, local community, and identity contexts in the “real world”. She has collaborated as a linguist with specialists with technical expertise, including research on aviation miscommunication.

Dr Marie-Luce Bourguet

 

Marie-Luce Bourguet is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. She leads the 4-year multimedia pathway of the Queen Mary and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication transnational joint programmes. She has research interests in the use of social robots in education and on the use of technology to foster bilingualism in young children.  She holds HEA Senior Fellowship and is an expert reviewer for the European Commission.    

Dr. Rosemary Clyne

 

Rosemary is Senior Lecturer on Queen Mary’s joint programme in biomedical science with Nanchang Chinese University.  She has championed the potential of technology to elevate learning and has implemented a number of digital learning and outreach projects. She is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, recipient of two Queen Mary Education Excellence Awards in 2019, and winner of the Biochemical Society Teaching Excellence Award for 2020.

Dr. Philippa Cranwell

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Philippa is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Reading. She has extensive experience of teaching students chemistry who come from a variety of backgrounds and a range of abilities. She has co-authored several educational texts relating to both practical and theoretical organic chemistry. She actively undertakes research in the field of chemistry education and regularly publishes her works. One of her key areas of interest is the language used by instructors when teaching chemistry to students, and how this can have an impact upon student learning and attainment. She was awarded a University of Reading Teaching Fellowship in 2016 for her contribution to teaching and learning.

Dr. Dan Cornwell

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Dan is a Lecturer in Chemistry Education at King’s College London. Alongside the day-to-day delivery of lectures and labs across the undergraduate Chemistry course, Dan works to develop creative and innovative teaching methods to better engage students, with particular interests in active learning methodologies, technology-enhanced learning, and inclusive education.

Romilly Hryczanek

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Romilly is a second year Chemistry student at the University of Reading with a particular interest in Organic Chemistry. Her passion for both the sciences and linguistics stems from A Levels in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics and English Literature. She is excited to provide a student perspective to the SEE-U project.

Contact us:                   Visit SEE-U:

see-u@qmul.ac.uk        https://see-u.org.uk/

or

g.cavalli@qmul.ac.uk

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