Professor Richard Andrews

Biography

Background

Richard Andrews has held professorships at the Universities of Hull, York, UCL Institute of Education and the University of East Anglia. He is co-series editor with Vicki Wienand of the Cambridge School Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press) which launched in a Chinese edition in 2021 via Beijing Language and Culture University Press. He is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Multimodal Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan). 

He was, until recently, a member of the All Souls Group (Oxford) on education policy and is an associate of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the New Visions for Education Group and of the Global Education Deans’ Forum. Currently, he acts as external reviewer for the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was, from 2017-22, external examiner for Hong Kong University. 

His latest academic book, Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society: complex time relations in the arts, humanities and social sciences, was published by Springer in 2021. Other recent publications are Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics for Routledge (New York 2018), an article for the Swedish journal, Education and Democracy, on the importance of contemporary rhetoric for schools in England (2019) and a chapter on teacher education in England in Teaching the World’s Teachers, eds Lefty and Fraser (2020).  

To be published soon from Springer: Choreography of the Poem, on the relationship between dance, poetry and poetics. 

In 2025 he published a third book of poems with Terpsichore Press: Birdsong in the Subway: Poems from China and Japan, following Falling Uphill: Forty-Six Adirondack Poems (2021). 

CV

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Qualifications

MA (Oxon), PHd (Hull), PGCE (Leeds)

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Areas of interest for supervision

I supervise topics in the field of intercultural language use; argument and argumentation; academic English; poetics and contemporary rhetoric (the arts of discourse); and research methods in digital education. 

Please note, I am not open to PhD enquiries at present. Please contact  the Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Dario Banegas on dario.banegas@ed.ac.uk 

Current PhD students supervised

abab AlHaddab - To what extent does portfolio assessment contribute to the development of student experience in the context of teaching academic writing in Arabic as a second language? 

Jingting Hu - Examining staff's motivation and perceptions of conducting research and teaching activities in a Chinese Sino-UK university: a case study 

Yurou Wei - Storytelling and language education in China 

Maggie Mei Kee Chan - The representation of disabled children and people in biographies and fiction for 3-8 year olds 

Xuande Wu - Acculturation and second language learning motivation for Chinese students in Scotland 

Alia Aljoofi - Pragmatics and English as a Foreign Language learning in Saudi Arabia 

Flora Mei Hua Yang - How do English language learners in a Taiwanese senior high school use smartphones and tablet computers to assist their learning inside and outside the English language classroom? 

 

Past PhD students supervised

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Research summary

My main research interests are in argumentation in schools and higher education; poetics and contemporary rhetoric; and research methods in digital education.

Past project grants

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Conference details

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