Amanda French
Amanda has worked in higher, further, adult education and the voluntary sector for 30 years as a lecturer, writing developer and researcher and is currently employed as Reader in Teaching and learning at Birmingham City University.
Her PhD in Education: '"Through a glass darkly”: Lecturers perceptions of Academic Writing’: was about lecturers’ perceptions of academic writing and writing development practices in higher education.
Other research interests include academic writing and learner development in higher education, participatory research, and transition experiences in education, employment literacies, widening participation and social justice, radical methodologies, critical pedagogies, postgraduate teaching and learning. She has presented and published on these areas nationally and internationally.