The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is pleased to invite you to Professor James Minney’s inaugural public lecture, which will take place on Thursday 28 November at 18:00 at Avenue Campus.
About the speaker
Prof James Minney is Deputy Head of School for Education in the School of Humanities and has previously served as Head of Department for both Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and the Academic Centre for International Students and as Associate Dean (Education and Student Experience) in the Faculty of Humanities.
James is a practising translator, working across a variety of fields and provides training and advice for translators and interpreters working in voluntary and community settings. James is also an experienced language assessor for the aviation industry and has advised on the design of training programmes and language proficiency assessment design in aviation contexts. From his wide-ranging experience as an educator, James has developed a particular interest in curriculum design and assessment practices.
About the lecture
This talk will explore the complex and occasionally tense relationship between research and education in the context of higher education in the UK. It will then consider how higher education can inform professional practice, drawing specifically on James’s extensive experience as both a translator and as a linguist working with professionals in the aviation industry. James will then aim to “close the loop” by illustrating how insights from professional practice can stimulate further research which, in turn, can inform teaching and learning in higher education.
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