About Keynote Speaker

Dr. Charlotte Taylor

Charlotte Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sussex.
She combines pragmatics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics in her research which focuses on language and conflict in two contexts: mock politeness and the representation of migration.
Her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review (with Anna Marchi), Exploring Absence and Silence in Discourse: Empirical Approaches (with Melani Schroeter), Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and Practice in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (with Alan Partington & Alison Duguid) and Mock Politeness in English and Italian.

Agnes is an experienced intercultural business coach, trainer and facilitator, with a Norwegian and South-African background.
Previously Agnes worked for fintech company Bloomberg LP and has run her own intercultural coaching company since 2007.
Agnes regularly leads workshops at the Norwegian School of Economics and is a guest lecturer to MA students in intercultural communication at University of Manchester.
Agnes is Director of Professional Development for SIETAR UK and Vice President of the Norwegian-British Chamber of Commerce.
Agnes holds an MA in Intercultural Communication, an MSc in business administration and has qualifications in comparative politics, psychology and teaching.

Gabriela Weglowska is Intercultural Skills Consultant at Learnlight and Director of Communications at SIETAR UK.
Gabriela holds an MA in Intercultural Business Communication and a CIPD diploma in Learning & Development.
Her work focuses on cultural competence, soft skills and diversity & inclusion. She advises on and designs learning content and blended solutions that meet the needs of the Modern Learner.

Prue Holmes is Professor, and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Education, Durham University, United Kingdom.
She researches and supervises postgraduate students in the areas of intercultural and international education, languages and intercultural communication, and intercultural dialogue.
Prue has also taught English language and intercultural education in higher education in China, Hong Kong, Italy, and New Zealand.
She is Principal Investigator of the AHRC GCRF-funded project “Building an intercultural pedagogy in higher education: Culture, identity, and language” (AH/S003967/1); and Co-Investigator on the Erasmus+ project “Resources for Interculturality in Chinese Higher Education” (RICH-Ed).
She chairs the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) and co-edits the Multilingual Matters book series Researching Multilingually.

Charlotte Taylor

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