About us
The Language(s), Interculturality and Literacies Research Hub focuses on the nature and roles of language learning, language in learning and language use in diverse educational contexts.
Welcome to the Language(s), Interculturality and Literacies Research Hub. We seek to build a vibrant, inclusive community of researchers to share experiences, challenge our thinking and support ourselves and others in our work.
Our responsibility as researchers is to encompass the dynamic of shifting and overlapping linguistic epistemologies which shape the lives of human beings in diverse ways.
Using an intersecting lens in the domain of language education, our purpose is to ask broader critical questions within a socially-oriented transdisciplinary framework to contribute to global understanding - ‘what if’ thinking, posing disruptive questions, generating mindsets open to critical enquiry.
Seeing Language Education as a holistic phenomenon, suggests not only taking account of social contexts, but also complex, embodied social processes underpinned by broader pedagogic theories with a focus on action and transformation. teracies.
Our hub leadership team
| Role with Hub | Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-lead on PGR applications and training | Dr Florence Bonacina-Pugh | Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Language Education | f.bonacina-pugh@ed.ac.uk |
| Co-lead on PGR applications and training | Dr Cécile Bullock | Lecturer in Language Education | cecile.bullock@ed.ac.uk |
| Hub co-lead and ethics | Dr Madeleine Campbell | Teaching Fellow in Language Education | madeleine.campbell@ed.ac.uk |
| Hub co-lead | Professor Do Coyle | Chair in Languages Education and Classroom Learning | do.coyle@ed.ac.uk |
| Internal communications | Janet de Vigne | Programme Director: MSc TESOL / Teaching Fellow | janet.devigne@ed.ac.uk |
| Co-lead on PGR applications and training | Rachel O'Neill | Senior Lecturer in Deaf Education | rachel.oneill@ed.ac.uk |
| External communications | Dr Ashley Simpson | Lecturer in Language Education | ashley.simpson@ed.ac.uk |