SPEAKERS AT THE SYMPOSIUM
Constanze Bradlaw , MA, studied Sinology, Political Science, Cultural Anthropology and German Literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Hamburg where she received her Master of Arts in Sinology II (State and Society). In her current position as Executive Advisor, she works closely with the Vice President for Innovation and International Affairs of Technische Universität Darmstadt. As doctoral candidate in the Department of Multilingualism at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies, she concentrates her research on languages policies and management at HEIs with regards to various aspects of functional multilingualism. For further information see https://www.daf.tu-darmstadt.de/ueber_uns_1/team/constanze_bradlaw.de.jsp
Most recent publication:
Bradlaw, C., Hufeisen, B. & Nölle-Becker, S. (2024). The concept of functional multilingualism in the context of internationalisation at German universities. In D. Gabryś-Barker & E. Vetter (Eds.), Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism. Studies in Honour of Larissa Aronin. Cham, Springer, 61–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52371-7
For a complete list of publications see https://www.daf.tu-darmstadt.de/forschungprojekte/funktionale_mehrsprachigkeit/index.de.jsp
Emma Dafouz is a Full Professor in the Department of English Studies at Complutense University of Madrid. Since the 2000s her research has dealt with understanding the roles of language in education, both in Bilingual/CLIL programs and in English-medium higher education. She served as Advisor for Curricular Internationalization at her university from 2014-19 and developed the Plan for Internationalization. She has published extensively on English-medium education. Her most recent books are ROADMAPPING English-medium Education in the Internationalised University, co-authored with Ute Smit (Palgrave) and Researching English-medium education (Routledge). Presently, Dr Dafouz is Principal Investigator of the international project known as SHIFT, funded by the Spanish Government, which examines students’ development of disciplinary literacies in English-taught business programs.
Eliot MBOLO is a physician, PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy at UMONS. His area of research is respiratory physiology applied to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Since 2020, he has been involved in various teaching units for 3rd year undergraduate medical students. In this context, he has been in active collaboration with members from other faculties to promote interdisciplinarity in healthcare and in-depth learning through masterfully designed simulation spaces and state-of-the-art learning technologies. Moreover, Eliot has a keen interest in the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach through the use of English. In this regard, as of January 2021, he has been closely working with Julie Walaszczyk to achieve successful implementation of this teaching approach in his pulmonology practical classes.
Stefanie Nölle-Becker , MA, studied German Studies, American Studies and Sociology at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and Applied Linguistics/Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft at Technische Universität Darmstadt. She currently is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Multilingualism at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies as well as deputy director of the Language Resource Centre at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her research focuses on Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism. In her PhD project, she investigates multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of Higher Education institutions. For further information see https://www.daf.tu-darmstadt.de/ueber_uns_1/team/noellebecker.de.jsp
Most recent publication:
Bradlaw, C., Hufeisen, B. & Nölle-Becker, S. (2024). The concept of functional multilingualism in the context of internationalisation at German universities. In D. Gabryś-Barker & E. Vetter (Eds.), Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism. Studies in Honour of Larissa Aronin. Cham, Springer, 61–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52371-7
For a complete list of publications see https://www.daf.tu-darmstadt.de/forschungprojekte/funktionale_mehrsprachigkeit/index.de.jsp
T.J. Ó Ceallaigh is an Associate Professor at the School of Education, University College Cork, Ireland. His research examines teacher education, development and leadership, with particular reference to language immersion and bilingual contexts. T.J. is an appointed member of the European Commission Working Group on Digital Education: Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA), is an elected member of the Administrative Council of the Association for Teacher Educators in Europe (ATEE) and is an ICLHE Board member.
Anja Schüppert is an associate professor at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen, The Netherlands. A psycholinguist by training, she uses experimental settings to collect real-time data on language processing. She guest edited special issues in Lingua ("New horizons in sociophonetic variation and change", 2012) and Linguistics ("Experimental approaches to the mutual intelligibility between closely related languages", 2015). Having specialised in receptive multilingualism over the past 15 years, her current research interests include teacher and student performance in English-medium higher education.
Ute Smit is Professor of English Linguistics and Circle U. Academic Chair (Multilingualism, Interculturality, Language) at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on English and multilingualism in and around the classroom in various educational settings. Her publications deal with EME (English Medium Education), CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), ELF (English as a lingua franca) and multilingualism in classroom discourse, language policies and practices. Ute is a member of various international projects and presently the chair of the ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education) Association. For more information see https://homepage.univie.ac.at/ute.smit/
Patrick Studer is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Switzerland with twenty years of research and teaching in higher education. In research, he focuses on English language competence and didactics in higher education, on quality assessment parameters for English-medium instruction (EMI) and on the interface between EMI and internationalisation.
Jenny is an Educational Developer and Researcher at the Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden. Her role includes teaching, training and advising on issues related to internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC), cultural education, Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). She provides support and prepares educators and supervisors for the challenges of the multilingual and multicultural learning space. Jenny is involved in supporting quality education in English-Medium Education (EME) and also provides support for educational leaders to integrate internationalisation into the content and delivery of education.
Julie works as an ICLHE Advisor and e-Learning Educational Developer for the Language and Internationalisation Unit (Faculty of Translation and Interpretation) at the University of Mons in Belgium. Since 2015 she has been supporting and facilitating evidence-informed teaching practices and approaches in EME courses for senior faculty professors, lecturers and teaching assistants across all academic disciplines. She has been actively involved in course (re)design of English-taught programmes at the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy, Architecture, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Science and Engineering. Her current fields of interest include teacher training and CPD in ICLHE, internationalisation of the curriculum and horizontal internationalisation, inclusion and diversity in HE, multilingualism, technology in the classroom and innovative ICLHE teaching practices and assessment methods.
Robert Wilkinson is currently Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Maastricht University, Netherlands. He was involved in establishing the first EMI programmes in the mid-1980s at the same university. His research regarding EMI concerns the relationship between content and language and more recently the impacts of EMI on stakeholders and society. Recent publications include “English-medium instruction in multilingual university settings: Stakeholders’ conflicting interests in a Chinese and a Dutch context” (with Lijie Shao) in Journal of English-Medium Instruction (2024) and “The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe” (ed. with René Gabriëls) (2021).