Past events

When	Description	Location
31 March 2026	Supporting TESOL Teachers in Unlocking Collaborative Agency	Baring Court 202
13 February 2026	From English-Medium Preparation to Arabic-Medium Teaching: Examining Science and Mathematics Teachers' Challenges, Perceptions, and Professional Performance in the Sultanate of Oman	Teams
9 February 2026	LEN Lounge: Findings from TESOL Dissertation Research	Online
23 January 2026	EFL Teacher Stress in Saudi Higher Education: A Critical Narrative Research	Teams
5 December 2025	Plurilingualism in Education: Colloquium with talks and workshops	Online (registration required)
2 December 2025	LEN lounge: Findings from TESOL dissertation research	Online
24 September 2025	TESOL Book Launch	Staff House
3 June 2025	Schools Across the Ocean: Using the "UN Inner development goals" and creative pedagogies to develop multilingual practice in climate and ocean literacy	Baring Court 06
11 March 2025	LEN talk: School-based mental health support for children who speak English as an additional language (EAL)	Baring Court 06
5 March 2025	Exploring language awareness and sustainable/inner development goals	Baring Court 202
13 November 2024	What difference does our work make to the wider world? For colleagues working in field of language education, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics and related areas.	Baring Court 202
19 June 2024	Doctoral Research Forum - Belinda (Dan) Li - The Impact of L2 Motivations on Career Choices Amongst Female Graduates of English in China	MS TEAMS
28 May 2024	Research ethics in a multilingual world: A guide to reflecting on language decisions in all disciplines	Zoom
24 May 2024	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabularly strand) reading group	Baring Court 128
24 May 2024	Langscape & ENROPE colloquium 芒鈧€� Plurilingualism in Education	Zoom
3 May 2024	Doctoral Research Forum - Dr Nouf Alsaadi - The Complexity of Inclusion: Teachers' Attitudes towards Universal Design for Learning	MS TEAMS
24 April 2024	Schools Across the Ocean: A multilingual STEAM approach to climate education	Baring Court 03 & Zoom
25 March 2024	LEN End-of-term catch-up with language quiz.	Baring Court 202
25 March 2024	Doctoral forum: Title: Ethics Education in teacher professional development	Teams
28 February 2024	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Langauge Education Network Seminar: Chinese Reading Universality and Specificity: Evidence from Offline and Online Tasks	Baring Court 07
8 February 2024	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy - Vocabulary reading group	Baring Court 112
26 January 2024	Doctoral Research Forum - Norah Alhudaithy presenting Understanding Teachers芒鈧劉 Informal Professional Development in Virtual Communities of Practice in Saudi Arabia	MS TEAMS
24 January 2024	Centre for Research in Language & literacy - Language Education Network: Syntactic complexity and variation in the pre-field in fifth-grade elementary school children芒鈧劉s texts	Baring Court 202 & Online
15 December 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabularly strand) reading group	Baring Court 217
16 November 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary strand): Unraveling the dynamics of vocabulary learning: Investigating factors, techniques, and strategies	ZOOM
15 November 2023	Centre for Research in Language & literacy - Language Education Network: Multilingualism and Education: 芒鈧淟anguages Local to You芒鈧劉 (Roundtable event)	SWIoT Building
10 November 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Strand) - reading group	Baring Court 202
10 November 2023	Centre for Reserch in Language & Literacy - Language Education Network: 芒鈧淟anguages Local to You芒鈧劉: Exhibition	XFi
1 November 2023	Doctoral Research Forum: Wesal Maash - Preparation programme perceptions of novice Arabic language teachers	MS TEAMS
16 October 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy - Language Education Network: sharing research and planning for 23/24	Baring Court 08
5 October 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabularly strand) reading group	Baring Court 101
17 - 18 August 2023	Digital Literacy of Second Language Teachers Symposium (hybrid event)	Baring Court 06
17 July 2023	Language Education Network summer gathering	SH01 Staff House
5 July 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy: Literacies in Digital Contexts reading group	Baring Court 202 & MS Teams
19 June 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Seminar with visiting scholar, Stine Heger	Baring Court 09
19 June 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabularly strand) reading group	Baring Court 128
9 June 2023	School of Education student-staff Research Conference 2023	Baring Court, St Luke's Campus
7 June 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Summer Reading Group - Literacies and Digital Contexts	Baring Court 202 & MS Teams
24 May 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Studies) Seminar with external speaker Benjamin Kremmel (University of Innsbruck)	MS TEAMS
15 May 2023	Doctoral Research Forum - Amira Albebas - The Influence of International Postgraduate Programmes on Teaching Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions of Libyan English Teachers	MS TEAMS
11 May 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Studies) Seminar: Benefits of replication research: why we need replication studies to better understand the learning of L2 vocabulary, grammar and collocations
4 May 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Summer Reading Group - Vocabulary strand	Baring Court 126
3 May 2023	Language & Education Network Seminar: Multilingualism in Vocational Education (m-voc)	Baring Court 03
28 March 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Studies) Seminar: From input to output: Insights of vocabulary learning from developmental corpora of reading and writing	MS TEAMS
27 March 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Spring Reading Group	ZOOM
23 March 2023	Language & Education Network - Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis: methodology and findings from the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus	Baring Court 07
22 March 2023	Doctoral Research Forum - Shorouk Hanafy: PROMOTING CRITICAL READING, CRITICAL THINKING, AND ACADEMIC WRITING IN FIRST YEAR COLLEGE COMPOSITION COURSES USING BLENDED ONLINE INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES	MS TEAMS
21 March - 5 May 2023	Second Call for Papers - Annual School of Education Student-Staff Research Conference	St Luke's Campus & MS TEAMS
20 March 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Studies) Workshop
14 March 2023	Centre for Research in Language & Literacy (Vocabulary Studies) Workshop: Extracting, and listing collocations is unpalatable: how it become the compass?
8 March 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy (Vocabulary Studies): Research Seminar - CIIP Models of Vocabulary: Knowledge and Acquisition	MS TEAMS
7 March 2023	Workshop on Multilingualism	Peter Chalk Centre 1.3
27 February 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Spring Reading Group	ZOOM
30 January 2023	Centre for Research in Language and Literacy - Spring Reading Group	ZOOM
14 December 2022	Language and Education Network - Seminar - Bibliometrics: Application to Language Education and Relevance to Postgraduate Research Projects	MS Teams
8 December 2022	Doctoral Research Forum - Anfal Algharabally: EFL Teachers in Kuwait: Preparation, Challenges, and Traits of an Effective EFL Teacher	MS TEAMS
28 November 2022	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Investigating vocabulary in academic spoken English of Business lectures in China	MS TEAMS
17 November 2022	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - The MULTIWRITE project 芒鈧€� interaction between first, second and third languages	Baring Court 112
11 November 2022	Doctoral Research Forum - Tamara Al Khalil - Public and private education in Lebanon	MS TEAMS
28 October 2022	Language & Education Network - publishing your research workshop	Baring Court 112
5 October 2022	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Multilingualism in Vocational Education (m-voc): Insights from technical apprentices in Switzerland	Staff House (SH01 ground floor meeting room)
18 - 19 July 2022	BAAL Vocabulary SIG Annual Conference 2022	Streatham Campus
4 July 2022	Workshop on Bilingualism, Deafness and Education	ZOOM
10 June 2022	Doctoral Research Forum - Riadh Ghemmour - Telling Stories of an Invisible Cohort: Exploring Algerian EFL Students芒鈧劉 Experiences, Challenges and Hopes of Learning about Research Methodology and Writing Dissertations at Master芒鈧劉s Level.	MS TEAMS
24 May 2022	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Davron Abdullaev (Urgench State University, Uzbekistan) - Using a Specialized Corpus of Food Science and Technology to develop ESP teaching materials	Baring Court 112
19 May 2022	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Unni Soltun Andreassen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)	Baring Court 112
6 May 2022	Using the CIPP Model to Explore English Language Teacher Training, Digital Literacies and Gender Inequalities	ZOOM
8 April 2022	Doctoral Research Forum - Emna Maazoun Zayani - Problematizing the Written Corrective Feedback literacy to feed-forward at the Tertiary Level Context in Tunisia	Baring Court 220
1 April 2022	GSE Annual Staff-Student Education Research Conference	St Luke's Campus & MS TEAMS
25 March 2022	Doctoral Research Forum - Abdelhamid Ahmed - Frame Markers in L1 Arabic and L2 English Argumentative Writing: Across Linguistic Corpus-based Study	MS TEAMS
4 March 2022	Digital Literacy of Second/Foreign Language Teachers Seminar: What now? Transforming 芒鈧渢echno-pedagogical芒鈧劉 skills to transglobal communicative competences	ZOOM
1 March 2022	Joint Language Education Network and Centre for Research in STEM Education Centre Seminar: 芒鈧揑 don't like English; I don't like writing!芒鈧� A case study of EAL learner support in a secondary school in England	ZOOM
28 January 2022	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Maria Gonz脙隆lez-Davies (FPCEE-Blanquerna University Ramon Llull, Barcelona) and Gabriela Meier (樱花动漫)	ZOOM
11 January 2022	POSTPONED Joint Language Education Network and Centre for Research in STEM Education Centre Seminar: 芒鈧揑 don't like English; I don't like writing!芒鈧� A case study of EAL learner support in a secondary school in England	ZOOM
6 December 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (University of Surrey) Dictionary support for writing	ZOOM
22 November 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Danijela Trenkic (University of York) Pursuing university education in a foreign language: How difficult could it be?	ZOOM
12 November 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Rajaa Fallatah - Curriculum Development in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Primary EFL Teachers芒鈧劉 Perspectives on the Challenges of the Implementation of CLT into the English Curriculum in State Schools	MS TEAMS
8 November 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - 脙鈥ta Hauk脙楼s (University of Bergen) Multilingual teenagers: Who are they and what are their beliefs about multilingualism? Insights from the Norwegian school context	ZOOM
22 October 2021	LEN Lounge: 5 short talks on language education by GSE colleagues	ZOOM
18 October 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Hildegunn Dirdal (University of Oslo) Diversification and L1 influence in the use of clause types: A case study of complexity development.	ZOOM
11 October 2021	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Gabriela Meier - Languages and Social Cohesion: Insights from a New Book by Gabriela Meier and Simone Smala
5 October 2021	Democratising science: how Linguistics can help us understand citizen science communities	ZOOM
24 September 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Suaad Al Naabi - Pedagogies for teaching English as a Foreign Language to learners with Visual Impairments in Oman	MS TEAMS
23 July 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - James Herst - A critical examination of the job satisfaction of expatriate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in an institution of higher education in the State of Qatar	MS TEAMS
8 July 2021	Research Seminar: Can museums learn? Conceptualisations of itinerancy as crossing borders between science and society	ZOOM
25 June 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Doha Abusaud - An exploratory study into the daily lived experiences and emotional responses of EFL teachers in secondary public schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	MS TEAMS
14 June 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Alex Ding (University of Leeds)	ZOOM
7 June 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Karen Forbes (University of Cambridge)	ZOOM
21 May 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Reine Azzi - Attitudes towards Teaching English in Lebanon: An Exercise in Critical Applied Linguistics	MS TEAMS
17 May 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Yen Dang (University of Leeds)	ZOOM
10 May 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford)	ZOOM
5 April 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Chaima Mennai - Pasts, Presents and Possible Futures in an Expanding Postgraduate Landscape: Gender, Remote Residency and Transitions to Postgraduate Education in Algeria	MS TEAMS
19 March 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Hayam Mohamed - Critical Language Awareness in Modern Times. Educators芒鈧劉 Views and Related Issues: An Exploratory Study	MS TEAMS
15 March 2021	Language and Education Network Research Seminar - Luke Harding (Lancaster University) - Language assessment in the digital age: Ethics and consequences	ZOOM
8 March 2021	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Louise Palmer Overstepping the mark or knowing the score?: Rater decision making in EAP oral presentation assessments and the role of insider knowledge	ZOOM
22 February 2021	Language and Education Network Research Seminar - Pascual Perez-Paredes (Universidad de Murcia 芒鈧€� Cambridge Language Sciences): Extending corpus linguistics methods to education research	ZOOM
15 February 2021	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Kate Graham: What are the academic essay writing experiences of MIS undertaking a full-time taught Master芒鈧劉s degree at a university in the West of England?	ZOOM
8 February 2021	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Beatriz Gonzalez-Fernandez (University of Sheffield) -	ZOOM
29 January 2021	Doctoral Research Forum - Mubina Rauf - Critical Thinking and Academic Writing: A Case of Pakistani University Students	MS TEAMS
25 January 2021	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Mike Byram: Ethical Issues in Teaching Intercultural Citizenship in Foreign Language Education	ZOOM
16 December 2020	Language and Education Network - End of Term Quiz and Social	ZOOM
23 November 2020	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Lee McCallum - Understanding Relationships between Collocations and Writing Quality	ZOOM
20 November 2020	Doctoral Research Forum - Huda Alateeq - Critical Pedagogy among EFL Writing Teachers at a University College in Saudi Arabia: A Step from Theory to Practice	MS TEAMS
16 November 2020	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar - Prof Alice Deignan - Using corpus linguistic methods to study the language of school in England	ZOOM
9 November 2020	Language and Education Network Research Seminar - Britta Viebrock: Specific aspects of English language teachers芒鈧� professional development: transcultural awareness and transcultural competences	ZOOM
26 October 2020	Language & Education Network Research Seminar - Anna Pellicer-Sanchez: Vocabulary learning from reading: Insights from eye-tracking studies	ZOOM
18 March 2020	CANCELLED Research Seminar: Ana Pellicer-S脙隆nchez	Baring Court 112
11 March 2020	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar	Baring Court 06
2 March 2020	POSTPONED Research Seminar: Britta Vierbrock	EMS Building G27
19 February 2020	Research Seminar: Soo Yim	Baring Court 217
14 February 2020	Workshop: Salah Troudi	Baring Court 220
3 February 2020	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar	EMS Building G27
27 January 2020	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar	EMS Building G27
2 December 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Lunch	Baring Court 201
25 November 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Workshop	EMS Building G27
19 November 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar	Baring Court 112
5 November 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Lunch	Baring Court 201
25 October 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Workshop	Baring Court 202
21 October 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Seminar	Baring Court 101
14 October 2019	Language and Education Network - Research Lunch	EMS Building F20
11 April 2019	The LEN Talk - Dr. Martin Lamb (University of Leeds) "When Motivation research motivates"	Baring Court 202
21 March 2019	The LEN Lounge - Plurilingualism in Education	EMS Building G18
28 February 2019	Multilingual socialisation in education	Baring Court 06
18 January 2019	Language teacher cognition research: theoretical stances and methodological choices
21 November 2018	Language and Education Network Research Talk	Baring Court 112
25 July 2018	Seminar by Dr Phil Durrant (樱花动漫) Language development in children's writing from six to sixteen	Baring Court 114
23 July 2018	The impact of the use of English as a medium of instruction on Arab students芒鈧劉 Modern Standard Arabic proficiency and Arab identity at higher education in the United Arab Emirates.	BC112
22 May 2018	Seminar by Professor Dongbo Zhang (樱花动漫) Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Reading Development	South Cloisters 3.06
9 May 2018	Language hub lunch	Cathy's Cafe, Baring Court
7 March 2018	Language hub lunch	Cathy's Cafe, Baring Court
24 January 2018	A comparative analysis of Anglophone and Chinese conceptualizations of intercultural communicative competence (ICC).	BC202
10 January 2018	Language hub lunch	Cathy's Cafe, Baring Court
14 December 2017	Research Talk by Enjo Xuying Fan (樱花动漫) How do language teachers define thinking skills, and can thinking skills be promoted in language classrooms? Insights from Chinese primary teachers芒鈧劉 practices.	Baring Court 217
6 December 2017	Research talk by Dr Li Li (樱花动漫) Researching Teacher Cognition - A Discursive Approach	Baring Court 112
16 November 2017	Multilingual theme for GSE conference: working group	SC 3.06
13 November 2017	Language and Education Network Research Talk	Baring Court 202
1 November 2017	Language hub lunch	Cathy's Cafe, Baring Court