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Brian Turner

Brian Turner portrait
  • EAP Lecturer
  • School Director of Academic Tutoring (SDAT) + DAT Community of Practice Chair (AY 2025-26)
  • Disability Representative
  • IELTS Invigilation
  • InForm Journal editorial board member (hiatus for AY 2025-26)
  • Member of UoRs Digital Capabilities Action Plan Group since May 2024
  • Member of UoRs Reasonable Adjustments for Schools Working Group (RASWG) core group since Sep 2023
  • Former D&I Lead and Co-Lead (Sep 2022 to Aug 2025)
  • Former Representative to Senate (Sep 2022 to Aug 2025) included membership on Joint Standing Honorary Degrees Committee
  • Former UoR Access and Participation Committee member (Sep 2022 to July 2025)
  • Former UoR Disability and Neurodiversity Action Plan Group member (March 2024 to March 2025)

Areas of interest

  • Diversity and inclusion in education
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Intercultural communication and cultural diversity
  • Lexico-grammar
  • Logical reasoning
  • Materials Development
  • Metaphor in language
  • Neurodiversity
  • Philosophy as underpinning cultures, language and thought
  • Rhetoric
  • SpLDs
  • Student well-being and study skills

Background

I have nearly 25 years of accumulated experience in English language and academic skills teaching. I began my teaching career in 1998 in Japan at a senior high school for the JET Programme and later worked with all ages (literally 3-93) and levels with positions in senior and junior high schools, kindergartens and private language schools during the years 1998-2002 and 2006-2011. Upon returning to the UK in the summer of 2011, I worked as a head teacher for a summer English course for Italian teenagers and did my first summer Pre-sessional at UoR. Following that I worked at a local language school teaching English for General Purposes (as well as some comprehensive schools as a cover supervisor) before joining UoR and ISLI/Global Academy in April 2013. Since then, I have taught on a wide range of programmes and modules, developed numerous course materials therein, and moved into leadership and academic leadership roles.

Academic qualifications

  • Fellowship of Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
  • MA in ELT (窪圖勛蹋厙)
  • TEFL Certificate with Business (Global English)
  • BA Philosophy (University of North London)

 

 

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • AbilityNet
  • Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)
  • myGwork
  • National Inclusive Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (Deputy Chair)

Selected publications

How to Improve your English Academic Writing for University Study FutureLearn blog article available at:

Reflections on teaching a new programme InForm Issue 22 available at:

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations:

9/7/25: UoR T&L Summer Event Bridging the Gaps: Supporting academic transitions for student success. Joint presentation with colleagues Victoria Collins, Mark Peace and Rachel Rushton: Spotting the Gaps Early: Lessons learned from identifying and addressing absence in Foundation Students.

18/5/21: Language Teaching and Research Forum (LTRF) Joint presentation with colleague Dawn Dinsdale: Getting first year HBS undergraduates to engage during the pandemic The triumphs and tribulations of teaching UGs online.

1/2/18: Language Teaching and Research Forum (LTRF) Lecture Listening into Writing Project

28/3/17: Language Teaching and Research Forum (LTRF) Lecture Listening into Writing Project Literature Review Presentation

14/3/15: BALEAP 窪圖勛蹋厙 at 窪圖勛蹋厙 PIM; 窪圖勛蹋厙. For this conference, I was on the organising committee and also gave a presentation entitled 'The impact of the 窪圖勛蹋厙 Review homework task on the activation and development of core reading strategies and skills of EAP pre-sessional students'.


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