Profile
Biography
Eva joined the School for Business and Society in September 2021 as an Academic and Communication Skills Development Lead for MSc Management, having previously worked as a courses coordinator with the University.
She is an experienced module lead, lecturer, educationist and SEND specialist with the background in psycholinguistics, teacher training, Education Studies and the Sociology of Education who has been teaching since 2001 and working as a university lecturer since 2004 (both abroad and in the UK). She also worked in the Further Education sector, the private sector (cooperating with multiple organisations and providing teaching and training), and codeveloped and co-run projects within the Creative Industries.
Departmental roles
- Lead Academic and Communication Skills Advisor for PG Sociology
Publications
Selected publications
Conferences
‘Language and Communication in an Online EAP Context’, Language, Literacies and Learning in the Disciplines: a HE perspective BAAL/CUP joint conference, 8 and 9 July 2021; ‘Making IT work or… How a rapid response to the pandemic (COVID-19) enforced online teaching and learning and how IT has been used to turn Pre-sessional Courses to success’, Annual UoY Learning and Teaching Conference, 2 July 2021.
‘Fighting the Battle - EAP Teacher Education and Development on a Pre-sessional Programme. Induction and Beyond’, Leadership and Management in EAP: Insights, Issues and Experiences, Durham University, BALEAP PIM, 5 June 2021.
Academic Literacies and EAP – to box or not to box? Towards a lateral tutor’s approach. BALEAP/ALD in HE Joint One-day Conference (PIM), Academic Literacies and EAP: Same or different? Colchester, 24 November 2018.
Books and journals
The issue of gender in educational inequalities in post New Labour England. An outline of the problem. Journal of Gender and Power, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2015.
British coalition government – inequalities in education. A constant debate on the vicious circle of cultural transmission and the reproduction of educational inequalities (pp. 249-263) in: Edukacja i nierówność. Trajektorie sukcesu i marginalizacji. A. Gromkowska-Melosik, M. J. Szymański (eds), UiM Wydawnictwo Naukowe 2014.
Equalizing educational chances and reducing social inequalities in England. An overview of educational policy of the ‘New Deal’ Labour government 1997-2010 (pp.421-433) in: Neofilologie na przełomie tysiącleci. Najnowsze tendencje w literaturze, językoznawstwie, przekładzie i glottodydaktyce. P. Sznurkowski, E. Pawlikowska- Asendrych, B. Rusek (eds). AJD 2012.
Educational politics versus practice. Towards characterising the effects of educational changes introduced by New Labour 1997-2010 (pp. 421-432) in: Neofilologie na przełomie tysiącleci. Najnowsze tendencje w literaturze, językoznawstwie, przekładzie i glottodydaktyce. P. Sznurkowski, E. Pawlikowska-Asendrych, B.Rusek (eds.). ATUT 2012.
Olszówka, I., Rutkowska-Lis, O. Problem nauczania języka obcego w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej : obraz praktyki pedagogicznej w świetle nowej podstawy programowej (pp.145-158). In BIEŃKOWSKA, Izabela (red.). Wokół wychowania, kształcenia i zagrożeń rozwojowych dzieci i mlodzieży. Gliwice : Gliwicka Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości, 2011.
Jews who changed America (pp. 139-151) in: Zrozumieć innego. Współczesne problemy komunikacji międzykulturowej. O. Glebova, M. Niemiec-Knaś (eds.). AJD 2010.
Research
Overview
Eva's research interests include:
- interdisciplinarity in course development
- educational inequalities
- quality assessment within the HE sector
- teacher education and training
- (online) course design
Eva collaborates with colleagues in the School for Business and Society as part of multiple working groups focusing on assessment and related areas.
Teaching
Postgraduate
Eva is currently teaching across multiple modules as part of the Postgraduate Sociology Programme’s Team.
