Our Critical Friends

To ensure that our project outputs are of consistently high quality, we rely on the expertise of our Critical Friends. Critical Friends are established academics who are well known for their contributions in the field of Teacher Research Literacy.

David Gerlach

Bergische University in Wuppertal

Personal Website

Prof. Dr. David Gerlach is a full professor for English language education at the University of Wuppertal (Germany). In his research, he focusses on the professional development of language teachers, teacher identity and teacher knowledge (especially for inclusive and critical language education).

Richard Smith

University of Warwick

TBC

James Corocoran

York University in Ontario

TBC

Lachende Frau vor einem Sideboard. Über dem Sideboard ist dieselbe Frau mehrfach hintereinander abgebildet auf einer Leinwand, die durch einen Beamer erzeugt wird.

Martina Emke

Netzwerk hdw nrw

Martina Emke coordinates the academic staff development programme for Netzwerk hdw nrw, an association of twenty universities of applied sciences in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. She holds a doctorate in education from the Open University (UK). For the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) Martina has worked as teacher educator, project co-coordinator and materials developer in several projects. She is also the co-editor of the Castledown book series Developing Online Language Pedagogies. Martina’s research interests include language teacher professional development, posthuman education, networked learning and the use of social media in language teaching and learning.