Towards Intersectionality in Language Teacher Education (TILTED) Research Group

The TILTED Research Group brings together teachers and researchers who want to ensure that future language teachers develop professional knowledge around the different ways in which one’s identity is constructed and how those ways may create sites of privilege and marginalisation. We believe that embedding an intersectionality perspective in the language teacher education curriculum could be a powerful and sustainable way of supporting teachers and creating inclusive practices.

We inform and are informed by theories that include:

  • critical
  • feminist
  • queer
  • complexity
  • sociocultural

We are open to others.

Aims

  • To propose new perspectives in research and pedagogy for initial and in-service language teacher education
  • To support intersectionality in formal, non-formal, and informal (teacher) education
  • To design, implement, and promote innovative research methodologies with societal impact
  • To develop synergistic professional development by promoting intra-/inter- institutional collaboration (research, submitting papers for publication, engaging in research and knowledge exchange activities and submitting applications for research grants)

Areas of interest

Main area

  • Intersectionality in language teacher education curriculum development

Sub-areas

  • different dimensions of intersectionality (e.g., race, class, gender, etc., depending on our interests)
  • research methods and methodologies (e.g., arts-based methods, walking methodologies
  • narrative inquiry,
  • netnography
  • duo/multi-ethnographies)
  • curriculum design, resources
  • teacher education and the community
  • activism
  • crossing professional borders

Study

Members of our group teach on the following courses and programmes:

MSc TESOL

Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis (course organiser: Dr Sal Consoli)

PhD study

We welcome students interested in pursuing a PhD with us. You can find more information about postgraduate studies, including potential supervisors' availability and areas of interest, on our Postgraduate Research Degrees pages.

Podcast

Listen to our podcast series in which we discuss our take on intersectionality in language teacher education.

TILTED events

Integrating Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies into Language Teacher Education: An Online Conference, 12-13 June

Integrating Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies into Language Teacher Education: An Online Conference will take place on 12 and 13 June, 2025. The call for papers is open until 28 February. Details about the keynote speakers and the call for papers can be found at the link below. 

Previous events

You can now watch the talks from our 2023 and 2025 conferences on our YouTube Channel.

TILTED members

Members of the TILTED Research Group

TILTED research

The TILTED group’s research interests.

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