Dr Karin Whiteside
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+44 (0) 118 378 5392
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Associate Professor
- Head of English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
- Academic Language and Literacy Liaison (ALLL) for the Doctoral and Researcher College, teaching research writing courses and ‘Language for Research’ sessions in the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Researcher Development Programme (RRDP).
Areas of interest
From a researcher and practitioner perspective, I am interested in academic genres, disciplinary discourses, and corpus linguistic approaches in EAP.
My PhD research in Applied Linguistics involved a corpus-driven discourse analysis of undergraduate writing in humanities and social sciences subjects. I have recently completed research projects investigating postgraduate written coursework genres and research grant proposal texts. I am currently involved in a cross-institutional collaborative project exploring Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) affordances in the teaching of doctoral writing.
I convene the BALEAP (British Association of Lecturers in EAP) Special Interest Group for Doctoral Education, and am Incoming Chair for the BALEAP Accreditation Scheme (BAS).
Background
I have worked in English for Academic Purposes since 2004, and started working at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø in 2014. In my current role as Head of EAP, I have academic oversight of both the Pre-sessional English Language Programme and the Academic English Programme.
Academic qualifications
BA, BA Hons History & MA Applied Linguistics (Victoria University, Wellington, NZ), PhD Applied Linguistics (Warwick)
CELTA (A), DELTA
Professional bodies/affiliations
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Member of BALEAP (Global Forum for EAP Practitioners), EA