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Congratulations to Marianna Patrick!
Marianna Patrick, who has been offered the post of Research Fellow to support Ema Ushioda’s Leverhulme Trust project “Navigating the ethical complexities of using generative AI for academic writing”! This is a two-year full-time postdoctoral research position starting in April, and Marianna beat stiff competition from a very large pool (100+) of applicants!
Azadeh Moladoost (Project lead), Nusrat Gulzar & Elyanora Menglieva have been awarded IATL funding
The project is titled ‘Fostering Belonging: Empowering Doctoral and Early Career Researchers in Intercultural Research Context’.
Junjie Li & Weizhao Gong have written a publication
Li, J., & Gong, W. (2025). Engaging young language learners in participatory research: Visual arts-based approach. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 100187. See it here.
Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story
Altman Peng research, coauthored with Dr Chunyan Wu and Dr Yu Sun, is featured in a news story. Phys.org. 2025, 5 February. Activists leverage social media to counter China's state-controlled narratives, Available here.
Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr & Marianna Patrick have led on an exciting research project
Kieran File, Stephanie Schnurr & Marianna Patrick have led on an exciting research project collaborating the University of Warwick and Monash University on groundbreaking research into inclusivity in multicultural cricket teams.
The University of Warwick, in partnership with Monash University, is proud to unveil the findings from an insightful research project addressing inclusivity and cohesion in multicultural cricket teams.
This collaborative project, developed through the Monash Warwick Alliance and spearheaded by Kieran File (The University of Warwick) and Dr Lucas Santos (Monash University), focuses on how multicultural cricket teams, particularly those involving South Asian migrant players,
can foster greater inclusivity.
By examining the behaviours and interactions within these teams, the research provides a deeper understanding of how everyday actions can either foster belonging or perpetuate exclusion.
Dr Kieran File, Principal Investigator at The University of Warwick said, “Our research revealed that many challenges to inclusion in multicultural teams arise from every day, taken-for-granted actions and behaviours. These everyday actions and behaviours can unintentionally lead to exclusion, but when thoughtfully addressed and/or adjusted, they can foster a stronger sense of belonging.
Read more about the project here.
Laurent Ahishakiye has had an article published by IATEFL.
The article is based on his presentation at the IATEFL 2024 conference in Brighton titled "Promoting ELT bottom-up teacher CPD: a case of CoPs in Rwanda." It recounts a success story of a teacher professional development initiative developed and implemented by members of the Association of Teachers of English in Rwanda, which used a bottom-up approach to decentre ELT in an under-resourced context through communities of practice. For more details, you can visit https://www.iatefl.org/resources/iatefl-conference-selections2024-printed-edition.