I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social

Delighted to share a recent interview podcast with me by Jo Kukuczka, Theory into Practice (TiP) co-convenor, #baleap , in which I explain what dynamic assessment is and how I have used it in academic writing assessment in higher education. theory-into-practice.weebly.com/tip-blog/exp...

Open-access article on RefugEAP: an initiative to offer free online courses in English for Academic Purposes for refugee students jime.open.ac.uk/articles/10....

📰 EAP for Social Justice quarterly newsletter for Jan-Mar 2025 is now out. ⚖️ Catch up on the wonderful events our team have made happen so far this year! @wilhardman.bsky.social @alekspalanac.bsky.social @paulbreenauthor.bsky.social #EAP4SJ #SocialJustice #EAP

"Labels dehumanise us and inevitably lead to deficit narratives" 🗣️ Ramzi Merabet's brilliant keynote at BALEAP 2025 problematizing the 'international student' label 🏷️ @ramzimerabet.bsky.social @wilhardman.bsky.social

New event aimed at colleagues in @lcsleeds.bsky.social with scholarship in their profiles: 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 📆 Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-13:00 📍 Parkinson SR (B.10) celt.leeds.ac.uk/events/apply...

📢 New blog post! ✍𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀? 𝗔 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵. In this post @laetitiam.bsky.social and @albadelpozo.bsky.social reflect about the discussions that took place around scholarship in the last PRIA event celt.leeds.ac.uk/what-constit...

📣New publication! Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices, by our very own @laetitiam.bsky.social and @alexanderding.bsky.social Ding. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

L’écrivain britannique David Lodge, maître du roman universitaire sarcastique, est mort

Very sad to hear of the death of David Lodge, whose books I've been enjoying a lot recently (see thread above). He would have been 90 at the end of this month.

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

Budget 2025. L’alerte des « universités en danger » face à une situation financière très dégradée ! Les universités se mobilisent pour marquer leur « refus de se voir condamnées à dégrader la qualité de leurs formations ». www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti... #UniversitesEnDanger @lemonde.fr

I Like You – an almost unbearably lovely vintage ode to the sweetness and solace of friendship

“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don't already have one.” Kurt Vonnegut