CURRENT PROJECTS (FUNDED)
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Digitally-mediated EMI communication in Higher Education classrooms: Transforming evidence to practical resources, funded by British Council Future of English grant (£225,000), 2022-2025, University of Bedfordshire, University of Reading, Waseda University, with Dr. Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (PI), CRELLA Bedfordshire.
Digitally-mediated EMI communication in Higher Education classrooms: Transforming evidence to practical resources, funded by British Council Future of English grant (£225,000), 2022-2025, University of Bedfordshire, University of Reading, Waseda University, with Dr. Fumiyo Nakatsuhara (PI), CRELLA Bedfordshire.
COMPLETED PROJECTS (FUNDED)
*The teaching-research nexus in higher education: an international comparison, funded by National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), PLN72,000, 2023, Krakow University of Economics (Poland), with Dr. hab. Marek Szarucki.
EsCo: Establishing a collaborative relationship for research on school mathematics teaching with linguistically disadvantaged learners, funded by John Fell Fund (£61,150.00), 2022-2023, Dr Jenni Ingram (PI) University of Oxford; Prof Kirstin Erath, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Prof Nuria Planas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and others, University of Oxford.
*Researching the impact of a CLIL curriculum and accompanying digital teacher training course focusing on improving child and health safety, funded by British Council EMaDA grant (£29,963.22), 2022-2023, UCL, with Dr. Wenxuan Li and Ms. Philippa Valleley, UCL.
STEM education for global citizenship: Addressing bilingual (Taiwanese-English) teaching challenges using innovative digital technologies, funded by ESRC-MOST (£30,000), 2021-2022, UCL + National Taiwan Normal University, with Prof. Alison Clark-Wilson (PI), Dr. Piers Saunders, UCL, & Dr. Chun-Yen (Jim) Chang and others, NTNU.
*Evolving writer identities in professional and traditional doctoral dissertation writing in education, funded by UCL Institute of Education Centre for Doctoral Education (£2100), 2020-2021, UCL.
*Exploring the Teaching-Research Nexus in Higher Education, funded by British Academy (£37,000), 2018-2021, with Shona McIntosh, Lizzi Milligan (2018-19), University of Bath & Agata Mikolajewska, UCL
An investigation of current university policy guidelines for English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education institutions in China, funded by British Council (£25,000), 2019, with Heath Rose (PI), Xin Xu, & Sihan Zhou, University of Oxford
*EU-13 Network for Academic Community Teamwork (ENACT), funded by the UCL Institute of Education CCM Seedcorn fund (£3000), 2019, UCL+
Cost-benefit analysis of English medium instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education, funded by EMI Oxford (£24,000) 2017-2019, University of Oxford, Rikkyo University
English as a Lingua Franca in International Research Partnerships, with Dr. Trevor Grimshaw (PI), funded by Santander's International Research Funding Scheme
2017-2018, University of Bath, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Pedagogies for promoting transcultural competence: A critical review of four taught master’s programmes at the University of Bath, with Drs. Katie Dunsworth (PI), Trevor Grimshaw, Janina Iwaniec, funded by the Teaching Development Fund (£7800)
2015-2017, University of Bath
*Learning Management Systems: Tracking learner development and developing effective evaluative rubrics, funded by the Education Innovation Grant (JPY 1.35 mil)
2014-2016, Sophia University
*Reacting to the Past: New Approaches to Critical Thinking and Japanese History, principal investigator, with Dr Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Dr Matthew Thompson, funded by the Education Innovation Grant (JPY 4.5 mil)
2012-2015, Sophia University
EsCo: Establishing a collaborative relationship for research on school mathematics teaching with linguistically disadvantaged learners, funded by John Fell Fund (£61,150.00), 2022-2023, Dr Jenni Ingram (PI) University of Oxford; Prof Kirstin Erath, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Prof Nuria Planas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and others, University of Oxford.
*Researching the impact of a CLIL curriculum and accompanying digital teacher training course focusing on improving child and health safety, funded by British Council EMaDA grant (£29,963.22), 2022-2023, UCL, with Dr. Wenxuan Li and Ms. Philippa Valleley, UCL.
STEM education for global citizenship: Addressing bilingual (Taiwanese-English) teaching challenges using innovative digital technologies, funded by ESRC-MOST (£30,000), 2021-2022, UCL + National Taiwan Normal University, with Prof. Alison Clark-Wilson (PI), Dr. Piers Saunders, UCL, & Dr. Chun-Yen (Jim) Chang and others, NTNU.
*Evolving writer identities in professional and traditional doctoral dissertation writing in education, funded by UCL Institute of Education Centre for Doctoral Education (£2100), 2020-2021, UCL.
*Exploring the Teaching-Research Nexus in Higher Education, funded by British Academy (£37,000), 2018-2021, with Shona McIntosh, Lizzi Milligan (2018-19), University of Bath & Agata Mikolajewska, UCL
An investigation of current university policy guidelines for English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education institutions in China, funded by British Council (£25,000), 2019, with Heath Rose (PI), Xin Xu, & Sihan Zhou, University of Oxford
*EU-13 Network for Academic Community Teamwork (ENACT), funded by the UCL Institute of Education CCM Seedcorn fund (£3000), 2019, UCL+
Cost-benefit analysis of English medium instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education, funded by EMI Oxford (£24,000) 2017-2019, University of Oxford, Rikkyo University
English as a Lingua Franca in International Research Partnerships, with Dr. Trevor Grimshaw (PI), funded by Santander's International Research Funding Scheme
2017-2018, University of Bath, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
Pedagogies for promoting transcultural competence: A critical review of four taught master’s programmes at the University of Bath, with Drs. Katie Dunsworth (PI), Trevor Grimshaw, Janina Iwaniec, funded by the Teaching Development Fund (£7800)
2015-2017, University of Bath
*Learning Management Systems: Tracking learner development and developing effective evaluative rubrics, funded by the Education Innovation Grant (JPY 1.35 mil)
2014-2016, Sophia University
*Reacting to the Past: New Approaches to Critical Thinking and Japanese History, principal investigator, with Dr Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Dr Matthew Thompson, funded by the Education Innovation Grant (JPY 4.5 mil)
2012-2015, Sophia University
