Dr Ashley Simpson
Lecturer in Language Education/ Co-Head: Institute for Language Education

- Moray House School of Education and Sport, ILE
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Email: ashley.simpson@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, CH
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
Dr Ashley Simpson is currently Co-Head: Institute for Language Education.
Dr Ashley Simpson specialises in Intercultural Education, Intercultural Communication, Critical approaches to Democracy and Human Rights in Education, and, Critical studies in Education amongst other aspects. Simpson has experience of working in higher education institutions in China, Finland and Russia.
Simpson has published extensively on Intercultural Communication Education. He is the co-author (with Fred Dervin) of Interculturality and the Political within Education (London: Routledge). Simpson has also co-edited the volumes The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research: Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy (2020: Palgrave Macmillan), and, Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers: Confronting Ideologies and Practices (London: Routledge).
Simpson has published research articles on Intercultural Communication Education in top international journals such as, British Journal of Educational Studies; Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education; Frontiers of Education in China; Intercultural Communication Education; International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; and, Palgrave Communications, amongst others.
He currently holds visiting academic positions in China and in Canada.
Qualifications
BA in Politics (University of Leeds)
MA in International Politics - International Relations (University of Manchester)
PhD in Education (University of Helsinki)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Co-Head: Institute for Language Education.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
My PhD supervison areas are:
Intercultural Education
Intercultural Communication
Multilingualism
Discourses, Identities and diversities in Education
Critical approaches to Democracy, Equality and Human Rights in Education
Critical approaches and theories of Global Education
Discourse analysis
Conversation analysis
Dialogism
Research summary
Intercultural Education
Intercultural Communication
Discourses, Identities and diversities in Education
Critical approaches to Democracy, Equality and Human Rights in Education
Critical approaches and theories of Global Education
Critical Discourse Analysis
Dialogism
Research activities
- Pedagogy, Culture and Society (Journal)
- Pedagogy, Culture and Society (Journal)
- Simon Fraser University to
- Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology to
- Rethinking Reflexivity in Intercultural Communication Research and Teaching
- Critical Studies in Education (Journal)
- Investigating the self-reported second Language (L2) learner motivations of Japanese students on an International Foundation Programme at a university in the UK
- Developing a community of shared future through Critical Interculturality?
- Language, Culture and Curriculum (Journal)
- Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and the Question of the Other
- Victims, Survivors and Agentic Experts: The linguistic performance of agentic identities by refugees in Scotland
- Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology to
- Global and Intercultural Competencies in Education: For whom? By Whom? For what purpose?
- Teaching and Teacher Education (Journal)
- Intercultural Communication Education (ICE) in Chinese Higher Education: Renewing Interculturality or going around in circles?
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (Journal)
- Migrant education lessons with Finland: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward?
- Teaching and Teacher Education (Journal)
- Pedagogy, Culture and Society (Journal)
- Discussant: ‘Further thoughts on teaching interculturality in higher education during and after the COVID-19 crisis’
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Reconfiguring Intercultural Communication Education through the dialogical relationship of Istina (Truth) and Pravda (Truth in Justice)
(11 pages)
In:
Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 55, pp. 456-467
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2098109
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and the Question of the Other
In:
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, vol. 31
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Special issue (Published) -
Concluding remarks on intercultural communication pedagogy and the question of the other
(13 pages)
In:
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, vol. 31, pp. 325-337
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2164337
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Introducing intercultural communication pedagogy and the question of the other
(15 pages)
In:
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, vol. 31, pp. 221-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2022.2164339
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Self, reflexivity and the crisis of "outsidedness": A dialogical approach to critical autoethnography in Education?
(10 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/b23046-22
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Business English students’ multifaceted and contradictory perceptions of intercultural communication education (ICE) at a Chinese University
(16 pages)
In:
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, vol. 25, pp. 2041-2057
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1840508
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Inclusion and globalisation in Russian education: Mutually inseparable yet conceptually and linguistically at odds
(17 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66003-1_20
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Interculturality and the Political within Education
(138 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429471155
Research output: › Book (Published) -
The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research: Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy
(228 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56009-6
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Introduction: Beyond impotent criticality in education research?
(19 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56009-6_1
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Chinese Minzu education in higher education: An inspiration for 'Western' diversity education?
In:
British Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 68, pp. 461-486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1712323
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
“Do you eat dog meat and monkey? . . . I didn’t know anything about China back then”: Problematising Chinese heritage students through the lens of critical interculturality
(16 pages)
In:
Education and Society , vol. 38, pp. 73-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7459/es/38.1.05
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Forms of dialogism in the Council of Europe Reference Framework on Competences for Democratic Culture
In:
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development , vol. 41, pp. 305-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2019.1618317
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Intercultural Competence in the Work of Teachers: Confronting Ideologies and Practices
(296 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429401022
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Going forward with Intercultural Competence (IC) in teacher education and training: Beyond the ‘walls built by ghosts’?
(14 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429401022
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
‘I with an[other]’, otherness and discourse: Reconstructing ‘democracy’ through intercultural education?
(15 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429401022
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
The Council of Europe Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture: Ideological refractions, othering and obedient politics
(18 pages)
In:
Intercultural Communication Education, vol. 2, pp. 102-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29140/ice.v2n3.168
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Finnish professors’ experiences of decolonisation and internationalisation in South African universities
(20 pages)
In:
Education and Society , vol. 37, pp. 5-24
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
EDINA (Education for International Newly Arrived Migrant Pupils) Country Report – Finland
(19 pages)
EDINA › Other contribution (Published) -
'De-muffling' voices in education
(4 pages)
In:
International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education, vol. 4, pp. v-viii
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (Published)