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Profiles
Ms Helen Bowstead
Lecturer in English as a Foreign Language
English Language Centre (Academic Partnerships)
Role
EFL lecturer / Learning developer / TEL facilitator/Writing Cafe Coordinator
Qualifications
MA Education
PGCE (Post-compulsory Education and Training)
PgCTEAP (Teaching English for Academic Purposes)
Professional Certificate TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
Advanced Certificate TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
BA Hons Communication Studies
Professional membership
HEA Fellow
Teaching interests
Developing writing confidence and 'fluency'.
Staff serving as external examiners
University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)
Research interests
Narrative approaches to educational research. Auto/ethnography. Writing as a method of inquiry.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2013
'Deleuze and collaborative writing as method of inquiry'
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
(6)
2009
'Teaching English as a foreign language – a personal exploration of language, alienation and academic literacy'
Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
(1)
Publisher Site
Chapters
2014
'Telling Stories: Investigating The Challenges To International Students’ Writing Through Personal Narrative'
in Lillis T; Harrington K; Lea M
Working With Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice.
The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press
2011
'Devenir ecrivain(e) - Narrative writing as a research practice'
in Mansfield C; Seligman S
Narrative and the Built Heritage
VDM Verlag
Conference Papers
2016
'Space Pirates of the Ocean City'
Writing Development in Higher Education
Plymouth University
27/06/2016
29/06/2016
2014
'Space Pirates of the Ocean City'
Higher Education Academy conference: Heroes and monsters: extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities
The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
02/06/2014
04/06/2014
2014
'A tent for the ‘nomad’: Welcome to the Writing Café’'
Learning Development Spaces and Places
University of Huddersfield
14/04/2014
16/04/2014
2014
'Successfully designing assessments across in-sessional modules in English for Academic/English for Specific Purposes'
Internationalisation and the Student Experience Conference
University of Plymouth
18/12/2013
18/12/2013
2013
'Telling stories, breaking down barriers - the power of personal narrative to trouble notions of the 'other''
Discourse, Power Resistance Conference 13
University of Greenwich
09/04/2013
11/04/2013
2013
'In response to the internationalisation agenda: Five consecutive "lightening talks" with subsequent discussion'
10th ALDinHE Conference
Plymouth University
25/03/2013
27/03/2013
2011
'Creating intercultural exchanges - In response to the Internationalisation Agenda'
Teaching and Learning Conference
University of Plymouth
07/07/2011
07/07/2011
2011
'Telling stories, breaking down barriers'
BALEAP Research and Training Presentation Series: Methodologies for researching EAP contexts, practices and pedagogies.
University of Leicester
24/06/2011
24/06/2011
2011
'Telling stories, naming names'
8th ALDinHE Conference
Queen's University Belfast
18/04/2011
20/04/2011
2011
'Narrative writing as a research practice'
Narrative and the Built Heritage Colloquium
University of Plymouth
22/03/2011
22/03/2011
2011
'The importance of international students' life stories in breaking down barriers'
Higher Education Academy: Teaching international students workshop.
King's College London
17/02/2011
17/02/2011
2010
'Coming to writing: developing the confidence to transgress academic boundaries'
Writing Development in Higher Education Conference - Sustainable writing development: approaches and challenges.
Royal College of Physicians
28/06/2010
30/06/2010
2010
'Creating a Webfolio: Trainee teachers engage with PebblePad'
5th Plymouth University e-conference.
University of Plymouth
08/04/2010
08/04/2010
2010
'Collaborative Writing: Transgressing the academic divide'
7th ALDinHE Conference
Nottingham Trent University
29/03/2010
31/03/2010