Hannah Jones
Director of English Language Education
Address
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Paterson's Land
Holyrood Road - City
- Edinburgh
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- EH8 8AQ
Background
As Director of English Language Education at the Centre for Open Learning (COL), I have strategic oversight for all English for Academic Purposes (EAP) provision for the University’s students. My remit covers pathway provision for international students, such as pre-sessional EAP, both online and on-campus, as well as work on COL’s International Foundation Programme. I also have oversight for all in-sessional academic and literacies provision, which is open to all students regardless of their language background and is delivered mainly using an embedded approach in collaboration with Schools and programmes.
Prior to my appointment at the University of Edinburgh, I worked as an EAP Coordinator at the University of Bristol and as Head of the EAP Centre at a joint-venture university in Shanghai, China. I have spent almost two decades in various teaching contexts in China and Taiwan and I retain a passion for and commitment to my classroom practice alongside my strategic leadership priorities. While I am not a published researcher, I have delivered a number of practice-based presentations on academic language and literacies development. More detail can be found here: Research | English Language Education
Qualifications
Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2006)
Masters degree in English Language Teaching (2016)
Undergraduate teaching
I teach mainly in-sessional academic language and literacies, across all three Colleges and all levels of study.
Postgraduate teaching
I teach mainly in-sessional academic language and literacies, across all three Colleges and all levels of study.
Papers delivered
Jones, H. (2024), 'Authentic EAP Leadership: influencing power structures'. Presented at BALEAP PIM Collaboration Power and Influence, at Kings College London.
Jones, H. (2023), 'Claiming a seat at the table - navigating a university change project to reconstruct EAP in a new curriculum - collaboration and complicity'. Presented at BALEAP Conferece: EAP Under (de) Construction, at the University of Warwick.
Jones, H., McIldowie, P. and Murray, R. (2020), “Partnering with the disciplines”. Presented at The University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference: Curriculum Futures. 16 June.
Jones, H. (2019) ‘EAP teachers working in, with and through the Creative Arts: an exploration’ with Alison Thomas, Jennifer Sizer, Anna Rolinska, Clare Carr, Claire Maxwell. Presented at BALEAP Conference: Exploration, Innovation and Transformation at the University of Leeds.
Jones, H. (2018) ‘Expectations and Ambiguities in Disciplinary Writing: A Context-specific Exploration of Genres in the Periphery’. Presented at The Norwegian Forum for English for Academic Purposes Summer Conference: The Future of Genres, at the Oslo Metropolitan University.
Jones, H. (2018) ‘EAP and Academic Literacies: A Fuzzy Boundary in the Classroom’ Presented at BALEAP/ALDinHE Joint One-day Conference (PIM) – Academic Literacies and EAP at the University of Essex.
Jones, H. (2017) ‘Content-based Assessment- Does it Really Work?’ Presented at IATEFL TEASIG at the University of Bedfordshire