Biographies
English for Academic Purposes - A seminar with the University of Hertfordshire, (UH), UK, at Oslo University College, 14th - 15th June 2007
- Paul Roberts has worked as an English Language teacher and teacher trainer in eight different countries and has published a handful of ELT books. He is currently Head of English Language at the University of Hertfordshire, where his research interest is in the use of English as an international language.
- Andy Gillett has spent most of the last 30 years teaching English both in the UK and abroad. During this time, he has taught mainly ESP - English for Specific Purposes - in universities, colleges, private language schools, offices and factories. For the last 20 years most of his work has been involved with English for Academic Purposes in British higher education. He is now mainly involved in organising, planning and teaching EAP courses to students taking a wide range of courses at the University of Hertfordshire. For several years, he has been involved with BALEAP and after spending two years as chair, he is now treasurer.
- Jenny Leonard has been an English language teaching professional for over 30 years. She has worked in the UK, China and Turkey as a teacher, teacher trainer and director of studies. She has devised and delivered a variety of specialised courses, for businesspeople, lawyers, civil servants and doctors. She is now the programme tutor responsible for the University of Hertfordshire’s pre-sessional courses for international students.
- Mary Martala has been involved with the teaching of English Language for 18 years. She has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer both in UK and abroad. At the University of Hertfordshire she teaches on EAP courses which prepare students for entry to University programmes and on in-sessional courses which support students already following degrees at the University. Her main area of responsibility lies with implementing Integrated English to Modules across the University.
- Jeanette Rhedding-Jones is an Australian Professor in Early Childhood Education at OsloUniversityCollege’s Faculty of Education. She works to develop international research cultures and hence, amongst other things, the developments of English writing and talk by Norwegians. She has backgrounds in linguistics and in literature and first worked in Norway ten years ago as a teacher of English.
- Nancy Lea Eik-Nes works at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Her main areas of teaching are scientific writing and presentation for doctoral students, and academic writing for international students in graduate and undergraduate programs. She is currently completing a doctoral project based on e-logging in a scientific writing course.
- Drew Rodgers works at the Faculty of Social Science at OsloUniversityCollege. He has a background in English, French and social anthropology and teaches Business Communications, Cross-cultural studies, Negotiation, American and British studies.
- Judith McGuinness Torvik has BA degrees from USA and Norwayin Spanish and Norwegian, English and Education, with a Cand.philol. in English, University of Oslo. She teaches ‘Practical English’; BA English Intermediate courses such as ‘Emigration/Immigration: Midwestern Texts’; BA International Marketing: ‘Business Communication Skills in English’; English for Academics and English for Administrators at TelemarkUniversityCollege.
- Agnes Lorange Hayman has a Cand.philol. in English from the University of Oslo. Her background is otherwise in English, French and Norwegian. She has taught Norwegian at LondonUniversityCollege, University of London, and later at Leicester Adult Education Centre. She currently teaches English at Oslo University College’s Faculty of Engineering where she specialises in areas such as globalisation, cross-cultural business behaviour, management, business ethics, and communication skills.
- Sigrid Brevik Wangsness has her Cand.philol. in English from the University of Oslo, and also has a background in Nordic and German languages. She has an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota. She works at OsloUniversityCollege’s Faculty of Social Science teaching Business English, British and American politics and culture, international and intercultural topics.
- Ann Torday Gulden (seminar organiser) has a background in Radiography, having taught in Bergen and Oslo and devised new courses in radiation protection. She has taught English literature and has a doctorate on Milton from the University of Oslo. She is currently attached to the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Personnel Dept. and runs a range of in-house EAP courses for several categories of staff at OsloUniversityCollege.